Looking at the flow of the discobot’s dynamic tutorial, it strikes me that this sort of automated replying would be a really useful feature to customise. For example if I ran a course with step-by-step instructions, I could have automated messages sequentially guide a user through a process. I know…

There is the Custom Wizard Plugin :mage: or your could create your own plugin.

I don’t personally know of a plugin designed to specifically do what you would like to. If the Custom Wizard Plugin linked to above would take a bit more effort to setup than you’re looking for, discourse-templates would make sending responses manually more convenient. I reckon they’re your two bes…

Thank you both. I wouldn’t know where to begin with creating a plugin so I think setting up templates is a good solution here, especially as the community is just starting out so the manual step isn’t too taxing. I guess the feature I was describing would be to just add an element of automation to …

Hrm, actually… I don’t know if this is helpful, but you can configure Discourse to always email you when you receive a Message. It should be possible to implement the functionality you’re looking for outside of Discourse, and then simply use email to get messages in and out of the forum software. I…

Maybe you can use Discourse Automation

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 16, 2022, 11:34am 2

There is the Custom Wizard Plugin or your could create your own plugin.

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