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Feature Request/Idea: In API Guides, document additions to User Traces endpoint

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Feature: API Guide Help Wanted: Documentation Mentor: pdurbin User Role: API User
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Description

Overview of the Feature Request

What kind of user is the feature intended for?
API User, Curator, Superuser, Sysadmin

What inspired the request?
Finding the GitHub issue https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/7952 and seeing that the changes aren't mentioned in the API Guides.

What existing behavior do you want changed?
To the section in the API Guides about the User Traces API endpoint, adding how you can search for the user's activity based on the role assignment they have.

Any related open or closed issues to this feature request?
https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/7952

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the API Guides section for the User Traces API endpoint linked in the issue, then read related issue #7952 to identify the behavior that is missing from the guide. Update that section to document searching user activity by role assignment, and verify the wording matches the endpoint's documented usage.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
api, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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