Hi there, I’m trying to create a plugin that surfaces a checkbox when creating a topic on the UI, and that basically saves a new attribute in the topics table. Basically I need to get the attribute saved whehter the checbox was clicked or not, and then surface the new attrbute when visiting a Topics page. I started from the backend, adding a migration that creates a new boolean attribute to Topics, defaulted to false and next I was working on the controller. But I haven’t been able to find a way to add the new attribute in the function posts from TopicsController. I couldnt find anything like this on the tutorials. Thanks in advance! after_initialize do module ::DiscourseXPlugin class ::TopicsController def posts Rails.logger.info '┌────────────┐' Rails.logger.info '│ Here we go │' Rails.logger.info '└────────────┘' end end end end

An alternative to this, would be to create a new method in the controller, like “posts_with_new_attribute” that is triggered through a new endpoint if the checkbox is clicked, but not sure if that would be more complicated.

[image] Pabs: that surfaces a checkbox when creating a topic on the UI, You’ll need to do that with a plugin outlet in the ember front end. [image] Pabs: that basically saves a new attribute in the topics table You want to use a TopicCustomField, not change any tables. [image] Pabs: and then surface the new attrbute when visiting a Topics page. You’ll want to add the custom field to the topic serializer. You can look at other plugins that do those things for some examples.

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Pabs (Pabs) March 27, 2023, 12:06pm 4

That worked! thanks!!

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