With regard to
https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/discussion_topics.html#method.discussion_topics.index
and the order_by=recent_activity - it appears to return results with the oldest posts first. Is there a way to reverse the order (and why would it do this!)?
/api/v1/courses/:course_id/discussion_topics?order_by=recent_activity
I got a feeling you already know but if it's an option to add a script to handle the data you can just use a JS .reverse() method on the data array.
Thank you. I hadn't thought about that, partly because this was for an MS Power Automate flow.
I would have to make a request, then extract the last page, and then request that if there are a lot of topics. I guess I could just request 100 results on the assumption that no sane course would have that many topics....but not sure that's a good assumption.
I went with the default order (by position) fwiw.
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