Discourse Chain Topics Plugin

[ghassan (Ghassan Maslamani)]

I have just released a discourse plugin for chaining topics

When I was going over Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin the guide is splitted into 7 parts.

I thought why not creating a plugin for this use case; where you have topics in a chain.

By using this plugin you could add “Next Topic” and “Previous Topic” links on the topic title.

See screenshot below for example how it would look:

For more details and install: GitHub - zaatdev/discourse-chain-topics: This a discourse plugin which adds a feature where it would be possible to chain topics. A topic can have other topic to be it's next or previous topic. · GitHub

Special thanks to @angus for How to add custom fields to models the guide/example enormously simplized the way I wrote the plugin.

[denvergeeks]

Absolutely LOVE this – a very important feature for Story forums as well as Documentation forums!

I’m getting a 500 error when I click the Save Edit button. The field in the composer doesn’t seem to keep what I enter into it…

Paginate Pagination Prev Next Previous Next In Sequence Sequential Forward Back (adding some key words here to make this Topic easier to find for folks!)

[denvergeeks]

Here’s a method I’m using …

Is pagination impossible or just hard?

To create navigation from Topic to Topic (and auto insert Back/Prev and Forward/Next buttons on each Topic in the sequence), I’m doing it this way… I’m repurposing the “Reply as Linked Topic” and then CSS styling the links like so … [noobish-me-customize-text-js-post-continue-discussion] [noobish-me-reply-as-linked-topic-select] [noobish-me-reply-as-linked-topic-select-auto-inserts-link] And adding some CSS in the Theme Settings … MINIMAL CSS JUST FOR THE BUTTONS INSTRUCTIONS AND THE …

[ghassan (Ghassan Maslamani)]

Hey @denvergeeks, yes the plugins probably need some refactoring. I haven’t given it much attention recently, I will try devote sometime soon.

[denvergeeks]

That would be awesome

[ghassan (Ghassan Maslamani)]

I am trying to reproduce, but couldn’t for the same exact error you report.

• What is your version of discourse (I tried from the master branch)
• Do you have spesfic plugins, settings that are not typical
• Did you get that error always, no matter the type of topics…etc

[denvergeeks]

Hello @ghassan – I still get the same 500 error when saving the Topic post!

• What is your version of discourse (I tried from the master branch)

I’m all up to date!

• Do you have specific plugins, settings that are not typical

I tried removing all other plugins but the same…

• Did you get that error always, no matter the type of topics…etc

Yes always – all types of Topics result in the same 500 error!

This plugin would be so useful, I really do hope you can fix it!!!

[denvergeeks]

Any chance for updating this plugin, @ghassan ?

[denvergeeks]

This feature for users to organize Docs pages into sequences would be really nifty with the newly refactored Discourse Docs!

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

This could probably be done as a theme component, eh?

But then again, it isn’t very difficult to manually put a link at either the top or the bottom of the post.