Adding Additional Authors via the API

When an account has the “limit author” permissions enabled, the editing of content is restricted to the owner of the content. If additional authors are needed within a course, you can do it via an API call! The additional authors will not show in the user interface but can be identified using an API call as well. 

Adding the additional Author

You will do a POST on https://{{domain}}.bridgeapp.com/api/author/course_templates/:course_id/authors

The body of the call will look like this:

{
  "content_editors": [
    {
     "user_id": users_id
    }]
}

Note: This call requires an Account Admin level token.

The users_id that will be used in this call is the Bridge id given to the individual users. You can get this id from the URL when on the user's profile or from the users.csv export (column A). 

Identifying Authors on the course

You can see which users have been set as an author by doing a GET on the same endpoint