How to add TimeLine Comment to Customers using REST APIs?

[Abdul_Qayyum]

I am looking to add comments using REST API on customer object, and I am able to add these comments from front-end easily requests are hitting https://admin.shopify.com/api/shopify/store-name?operation=TimelineCommentCreate&type=mutation with message and other variables but when I read the documentation it tells that mutation timelineCommentCreate doesn't exist on the 'Mutation' type.

How can we achieve this?

[Liam]

Hi Abdul_Qayyum,

The timelineCommentCreate mutation is not available in Shopify's public API. If you want to store extra data about a customer, one workaround could be to use Metafields. You can create a new metafield for a customer and store your comment there. You can use the metafieldCreate mutation in the GraphQL API, or you can use the /admin/api/#{api_version}/customers/#{customer_id}/metafields.json endpoint in the REST API to do this.

Hope this helps,

[Abdul_Qayyum]

Is there any way i can create the activity using REST API?
I just want to create a timeline activity programmatically in Shopify using REST API or something else if Comment APIs are not available!

[Thomas_Lang1]

same here, is it on the backlog to add this to the api rest or graphql? would be great if we can add events to the timeline for specific orders through the api