How to use admin api to create *published* posts?

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I am using the javascript admin api to upload content. It uploads fine as a draft, but I would like for it to have published status.

My api call looks like this:

  api.posts
    .add(
      { title: json["EventItemsx"]["EventBodyName"], html },
      { source: "html" },
      { status: "published"}
    )

I got that last parameter from

where it gives this example below, but the result is still a draft post. On displaying the response from the api call, I get:

…
status: ‘draft’,
…

Which matches the status in the admin posts screen itself.

From API Documentation:

Required fields: title

Create draft and published posts with the add posts endpoint. All fields except title can be empty or have a default that is applied automatically. Below is a minimal example for creating a published post with content:

// POST /admin/posts/
{
    "posts": [
        {
            "title": "My test post",
            "lexical": "{\"root\":{\"children\":[{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"Hello, beautiful world! 👋\",\"type\":\"extended-text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"root\",\"version\":1}}",
            "status": "published"
        }
    ]
}
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What happens if you structure your call like this?

api.posts.add(
  { title: json["EventItemsx"]["EventBodyName"], html, status: "published" },
  { source: "html" }
);
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Thanks Ryan, that appears to work. But it raises a possibly related issue.

On the posts admin page at http://myipaddress:2368/ghost/#/posts

I am only seeing draft posts and not published posts, even though the selector dropdown says “all posts”. If I chose “published posts”, then my published posts are there.

Is this the expected behavior?

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The admin page shows draft posts first, then published, as the default behavior. If you scroll down, are the published posts down below the drafts? :slight_smile:

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Thanks Cathy. I see there is a dropdown for sort order I hadn’t paid attention to before. It’s all there!

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