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Read Answer Board
Read the details of an Answer Board given its ID. Does not fetch items in this Answer Board, use /listanswers instead.
curl --request POST \
--url https://{domain}-be.glean.com/rest/api/v1/getanswerboard \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"id": 123
}'{
"boardResult": {
"board": {
"name": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"addedRoles": [
{
"sourceDocumentSpec": {
"url": "<string>"
},
"person": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"group": {
"type": "DEPARTMENT",
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
},
"role": "OWNER"
}
],
"removedRoles": [
{
"sourceDocumentSpec": {
"url": "<string>"
},
"person": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"group": {
"type": "DEPARTMENT",
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
},
"role": "OWNER"
}
],
"audienceFilters": [
{
"fieldName": "type",
"values": [
{
"value": "Spreadsheet",
"relationType": "EQUALS"
},
{
"value": "Presentation",
"relationType": "EQUALS"
}
]
}
],
"permissions": {
"write": {
"scopeType": "GLOBAL",
"create": true,
"update": true,
"delete": true
}
},
"id": 123,
"createTime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updateTime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"creator": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"updatedBy": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"itemCount": 123,
"roles": [
{
"sourceDocumentSpec": {
"url": "<string>"
},
"person": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"group": {
"type": "DEPARTMENT",
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
},
"role": "OWNER"
}
]
},
"trackingToken": "<string>"
},
"error": {
"errorCode": "NAME_EXISTS"
}
}Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Headers
Email address of a user on whose behalf the request is intended to be made (should be non-empty only for global tokens).
Auth type being used to access the endpoint (should be non-empty only for global tokens).
Body
The id of the Answer Board to be retrieved.
Response
The unique ID of the Answer Board.
The unique name of the Collection.
A brief summary of the Collection's contents.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
How this document relates to the including entity.
ATTACHMENT, CANONICAL, CASE, CONTACT, CONVERSATION_MESSAGES, EXPERT, FROM, HIGHLIGHT, OPPORTUNITY, RECENT, SOURCE, TICKET, TRANSCRIPT, WITH Which entity in the response that this entity relates to. Relevant when there are multiple entities associated with the response (such as merged customers)
{
"query": "app:github type:pull author:mortimer",
"label": "Mortimer's PRs",
"datasource": "github"
}
A truncated list of documents with this relation. TO BE DEPRECATED.
A truncated list of documents associated with this relation. To be used in favor of documents because it contains a trackingToken.
FULL_TIME, CONTRACTOR, NON_EMPLOYEE, FORMER_EMPLOYEE "FULL_TIME"
The first name of the person
The last name of the person
Job title.
Typically the highest level organizational unit; generally applies to bigger companies with multiple distinct businesses.
An organizational unit where everyone has a similar task, e.g. Engineering.
Info about the employee's team(s).
Use id if you index teams via Glean, and use name and externalLink if you want to use your own team pages
The number of people in this person's department.
The user's primary email address
Additional email addresses of this user beyond the primary, if any.
User facing string representing the person's location.
Detailed location with information about country, state, city etc.
Link to a customer's internal profile page. This is set to '#' when no link is desired.
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The chain of reporting in the company as far up as it goes. The last entry is this person's direct manager.
Phone number as a number string.
The timezone of the person. E.g. "Pacific Daylight Time".
The offset of the person's timezone in seconds from UTC.
The URL of the person's avatar. Public, glean-authenticated and Base64 encoded data URLs are all valid (but not third-party-authenticated URLs).
The original photo URL of the person's avatar before any edits they made are applied
The URL of the person's banner photo.
The date when the employee started.
If a former employee, the last date of employment.
Short biography or mission statement of the employee.
She/her, He/his or other pronoun.
The total recursive size of the people reporting to this person, or 1
The total number of people who directly report to this person, or 0
The preferred name of the person, or a nickname.
List of social network profiles.
List of profiles this user has in different datasources / tools that they use.
List of people and distances to those people from this person. Optionally with metadata.
Information regarding the invite status of a person.
Whether the user has signed into Glean at least once.
The last time the user has used the Glean extension in ISO 8601 format.
Describes the permissions levels that a user has for permissioned features. When the client sends this, Permissions.read and Permissions.write are the additional permissions granted to a user on top of what they have via their roles. When the server sends this, Permissions.read and Permissions.write are the complete (merged) set of permissions the user has, and Permissions.roles is just for display purposes.
User customizable fields for additional people information.
The logging id of the person used in scrubbed logs, tracking GA metrics.
Percentage of the company that started strictly after this person. Between [0,100).
Intervals of busy time for this person, along with the type of event they're busy with.
A generic, light-weight calendar event.
flag settings to indicate user profile settings for certain items
The badges that a user has earned over their lifetime.
Displays a user's accomplishment or milestone
Whether this person is a "root" node in their organization's hierarchy.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
How this document relates to the including entity.
ATTACHMENT, CANONICAL, CASE, CONTACT, CONVERSATION_MESSAGES, EXPERT, FROM, HIGHLIGHT, OPPORTUNITY, RECENT, SOURCE, TICKET, TRANSCRIPT, WITH Which entity in the response that this entity relates to. Relevant when there are multiple entities associated with the response (such as merged customers)
{
"query": "app:github type:pull author:mortimer",
"label": "Mortimer's PRs",
"datasource": "github"
}
A truncated list of documents with this relation. TO BE DEPRECATED.
A truncated list of documents associated with this relation. To be used in favor of documents because it contains a trackingToken.
FULL_TIME, CONTRACTOR, NON_EMPLOYEE, FORMER_EMPLOYEE "FULL_TIME"
The first name of the person
The last name of the person
Job title.
Typically the highest level organizational unit; generally applies to bigger companies with multiple distinct businesses.
An organizational unit where everyone has a similar task, e.g. Engineering.
Info about the employee's team(s).
Use id if you index teams via Glean, and use name and externalLink if you want to use your own team pages
The number of people in this person's department.
The user's primary email address
Additional email addresses of this user beyond the primary, if any.
User facing string representing the person's location.
Detailed location with information about country, state, city etc.
Link to a customer's internal profile page. This is set to '#' when no link is desired.
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The chain of reporting in the company as far up as it goes. The last entry is this person's direct manager.
Phone number as a number string.
The timezone of the person. E.g. "Pacific Daylight Time".
The offset of the person's timezone in seconds from UTC.
The URL of the person's avatar. Public, glean-authenticated and Base64 encoded data URLs are all valid (but not third-party-authenticated URLs).
The original photo URL of the person's avatar before any edits they made are applied
The URL of the person's banner photo.
The date when the employee started.
If a former employee, the last date of employment.
Short biography or mission statement of the employee.
She/her, He/his or other pronoun.
The total recursive size of the people reporting to this person, or 1
The total number of people who directly report to this person, or 0
The preferred name of the person, or a nickname.
List of social network profiles.
List of profiles this user has in different datasources / tools that they use.
List of people and distances to those people from this person. Optionally with metadata.
Information regarding the invite status of a person.
Whether the user has signed into Glean at least once.
The last time the user has used the Glean extension in ISO 8601 format.
Describes the permissions levels that a user has for permissioned features. When the client sends this, Permissions.read and Permissions.write are the additional permissions granted to a user on top of what they have via their roles. When the server sends this, Permissions.read and Permissions.write are the complete (merged) set of permissions the user has, and Permissions.roles is just for display purposes.
User customizable fields for additional people information.
The logging id of the person used in scrubbed logs, tracking GA metrics.
Percentage of the company that started strictly after this person. Between [0,100).
Intervals of busy time for this person, along with the type of event they're busy with.
A generic, light-weight calendar event.
flag settings to indicate user profile settings for certain items
The badges that a user has earned over their lifetime.
Displays a user's accomplishment or milestone
Whether this person is a "root" node in their organization's hierarchy.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The number of items currently in the Answer Board. Separated from the actual items so we can grab the count without items.
A list of user roles for the Answer Board.
A user's role with respect to a specific document.
OWNER, VIEWER, ANSWER_MODERATOR, EDITOR, VERIFIER The document spec of the object this role originates from. The object this role is included with will usually have the same information as this document spec, but if the role is inherited, then the document spec refers to the parent document that the role came from.
The URL of the document.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The type of user group
DEPARTMENT, ALL, TEAM, JOB_TITLE, ROLE_TYPE, LOCATION, REGION, EXTERNAL_GROUP A unique identifier for the group. May be the same as name.
Name of the group.
A list of added user roles for the Collection.
A user's role with respect to a specific document.
OWNER, VIEWER, ANSWER_MODERATOR, EDITOR, VERIFIER The document spec of the object this role originates from. The object this role is included with will usually have the same information as this document spec, but if the role is inherited, then the document spec refers to the parent document that the role came from.
The URL of the document.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The type of user group
DEPARTMENT, ALL, TEAM, JOB_TITLE, ROLE_TYPE, LOCATION, REGION, EXTERNAL_GROUP A unique identifier for the group. May be the same as name.
Name of the group.
A list of removed user roles for the Collection.
A user's role with respect to a specific document.
OWNER, VIEWER, ANSWER_MODERATOR, EDITOR, VERIFIER The document spec of the object this role originates from. The object this role is included with will usually have the same information as this document spec, but if the role is inherited, then the document spec refers to the parent document that the role came from.
The URL of the document.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The type of user group
DEPARTMENT, ALL, TEAM, JOB_TITLE, ROLE_TYPE, LOCATION, REGION, EXTERNAL_GROUP A unique identifier for the group. May be the same as name.
Name of the group.
Filters which restrict who should see this Collection. Values are taken from the corresponding filters in people search.
"owner"
Within a single FacetFilter, the values are to be treated like an OR. For example, fieldName type with values [EQUALS Presentation, EQUALS Spreadsheet] means we want to show a document if it's a Presentation OR a Spreadsheet.
"Spreadsheet"
EQUALS, ID_EQUALS, LT, GT "EQUALS"
DEPRECATED - please use relationType instead
Indicates the value of a facet, if any, that the given facet is grouped under. This is only used for nested facets, for example, fieldName could be owner and groupName would be Spreadsheet if showing all owners for spreadsheets as a nested facet.
"Spreadsheet"
The permissions the current viewer has with respect to a particular object.
Describes the write permissions levels that a user has for a specific feature
Describes the scope for a ReadPermission, WritePermission, or GrantPermission object
GLOBAL, OWN True if user has create permission for this feature and scope
True if user has update permission for this feature and scope
True if user has delete permission for this feature and scope
An opaque token that represents this particular Answer Board. To be used for /feedback reporting.
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curl --request POST \
--url https://{domain}-be.glean.com/rest/api/v1/getanswerboard \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"id": 123
}'{
"boardResult": {
"board": {
"name": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"addedRoles": [
{
"sourceDocumentSpec": {
"url": "<string>"
},
"person": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"group": {
"type": "DEPARTMENT",
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
},
"role": "OWNER"
}
],
"removedRoles": [
{
"sourceDocumentSpec": {
"url": "<string>"
},
"person": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"group": {
"type": "DEPARTMENT",
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
},
"role": "OWNER"
}
],
"audienceFilters": [
{
"fieldName": "type",
"values": [
{
"value": "Spreadsheet",
"relationType": "EQUALS"
},
{
"value": "Presentation",
"relationType": "EQUALS"
}
]
}
],
"permissions": {
"write": {
"scopeType": "GLOBAL",
"create": true,
"update": true,
"delete": true
}
},
"id": 123,
"createTime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updateTime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"creator": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"updatedBy": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"itemCount": 123,
"roles": [
{
"sourceDocumentSpec": {
"url": "<string>"
},
"person": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"group": {
"type": "DEPARTMENT",
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
},
"role": "OWNER"
}
]
},
"trackingToken": "<string>"
},
"error": {
"errorCode": "NAME_EXISTS"
}
}