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Started by Private User on 11/29/2011
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Private User
11/29/2011 at 3:51
Is there a method to detect if you have edit access to a public profile or not?
On private profiles I can detect it by having a name field, but no first and last name fields, but it would in general be nice to have a specific true/false parameter in the profile API data.
Private User
2/27/2012 at 15:43
We are in a process of adding a mechanism for querying what actions a user can perform on a profile (or any object for that matter). To query for allowed actions, you need to pass an "actions" parameter with a list of available object/profile actions you are interested in.

For example:

http://www.geni.com/api/profile?fields=id,name&actions=delete,update,follow,unfollow

The response will contain actions field as well with a list of allowed actions from the list of actions you have queried.

For the above example:

{id:"123", name:"Michael", actions:["update","follow"]}

Here is the full list of profile actions:

add,
add-child,
add-parent,
add-partner,
add-sibling
add-to-family
check-public
compare
delete
follow
invite
invite-to-family
photos
remind
remove-from-family
send-message
unfollow
update-basics
update, add-mugshot
videos
visible-tree

This mechanism is already available live and will be documented in the upcoming releases of the API.
Private User
3/20/2012 at 9:14
Thanks, - I notice that using the field_group=all does not return the actions table as I would expect.
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