In our forum, there are times–many times–when we want to mark a topic as solved that does not have replies. In order to do so, the moderator adds a reply and marks it as solved. The problem this causes is that an email is sent to all users. There are a couple of problems in this scenario that we nee…

Now, that would make too much sense! Haha. Seriously though, that is probably what we should do. Thank you for pointing out the obvious solution that I somehow missed.

This is actually not a good solution because it doesn’t interact usefully with the “Solved” plugin’s functions, and filtering in particular. Locked/closed topics will still show up in the “Unsolved” filter on-page. You can of course do an advanced search and filter out Closed topics from your result…

This is technically none of my business (I don’t work for Discourse or speak for anyone there!), but as someone who gets tagged into things because people assume that’s the best way to get help, I’m just going to go ahead and say: yeah, that’s definitely bad form. Don’t do it. If you need something…

No plans for this and it is not on any of our roadmaps. I don’t understand how a topic can be solved with no replies.. with no replies, you only have the problem statement, no solutions.

Fair enough. I seldom directly tag people. The reason I did here is A: this is a core plugin, B: Sam was the person who responded to one of these original requests saying there were no plans for it and he seems to be one of the people strongly opposed to/concerned about this request, and well, C: my…

How to mark topic as "solved" without adding a reply

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csmu (Keith John Hutchison - Ceiteach Seán Mac Úistin) May 26, 2019, 3:58am 2

Could you just close the topic?

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How to mark topic as "solved" without adding a reply

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