Methods

This section discusses the Oracle Empirica Topics methods in detail.

• Get a list of topics
  Your application retrieves a list of topics by using the getTopicContexts method, which returns a list of topic contexts with the name and identifier of each topic.
• Get a list of actions
  Your application retrieves a list of actions for a topic available to the user by calling the getActionContexts method which returns a list of action contexts with the action name and ID, and the associated topic ID.
• Get a list of work teams
  Your application can retrieve a list of work teams by using the getWorkteamContexts method.
• Get a list of topic templates
  Your application can retrieve a list of topic templates. The topic templates can be used to prepopulate new topic fields and actions.
• Attach to an existing topic
  Your application can create an attachment to an existing topic. The topic argument in the attachTopic method contains the identifier of the topic. Set the id field of the topicContext argument to the ID of the topic to attach to.
• Attach to a new topic
  Your application can create an attachment to a new topic.
• Attach to an action
  Your application can create an attachment to an existing action by calling the attachAction method.
• Get field metadata
  Your application can retrieve a list of all fields for topics, topic templates, or work teams by calling the getFieldMetadata method.
• Get field values
  Your application can retrieve a list of all field values for each topic, topic template, or work team by calling the getFieldValues method.
• Get filters
  Your application can retrieve a list of fields that have been set up as filters and their values by calling the getFilters method.
• Get a list of projects
  Your application can retrieve a list of existing projects by calling the getProjects method.
• Get user info
  Your application can view the topic permissions for a user by calling the getUserInfo method.
• Get topics service properties
  Your application can retrieve the Oracle Empirica Topics server version and other properties by calling the getTopicsServiceProperties method.