A community is hosting a contest and wants to use Discourse for entries, but with the replies being private (only visible to the poster and admins). 401Ott is unable to integrate the private topic forums plugin and is seeking alternatives.
RGJ inquired about the reason for not using the plugin, and 401Ott replied that it’s due to how their community is hosted.
@cocococosti suggested using private messages (PMs) with a pre-filled URL for ease, or polls. Another option is integrating Discourse with a third-party survey service like SurveyMonkey.
@nathank recommended the custom wizard plugin, which offers flexibility in achieving the desired functionality.
@pfaffman proposed using PMs initially and later converting the entries to a public topic.
Hi Everyone!
I have a unique circumstance where I want to use Discourse for a community contest we’re hosting. I want their entries to be sent via a topic reply though (So others can’t see their entries, only the one posting and admins can).
Unfortunately, I’m not able to integrate the private topic forums plugin that would have worked perfectly. Does anyone have any advice for alternatives to achieve this setup? Surveys, Discourse functionality, ect.?
Thanks!
May I ask, why are you not able to do that?
Just because of how our community is hosted which is completely fine @RGJ
Why not use PMs? If you want to make it easier for your community, you could share with them a pre filled url with all the info: Creating pre-filled personal message links
For example:
https://yoursite.discourse.org/new-message?username=admin&title=Contest%20Entry&body=Please%20add%20your%20entry%20here.%0A%0DName:%0AOther%20details:
And the link would open like this:
Maybe polls would work: Creating and managing polls
Or you could integrate Discourse with a survey third party service like SurveyMonkey.
Well, it is another plugin but the Custom Wizard Plugin 🧙 does this stuff with quite a lot of flexibility.
Yeah maybe pms and later you could convert to a public topic.
