Automatically Changing Ownership of First Post to a Specific User
@hellekin is seeking a way to automatically change the ownership of the first post in a specific category to a particular user, such as @system. This is different from the auto-wiki feature.
@hellekin clarified that they mean changing ownership, not using the Assign plugin. They believe this is a feature request rather than a support issue (@hellekin).
@Canapin suggested creating a plugin or using a webhook to achieve this. They use a webhook for a similar purpose and find it quite simple.
@Lhc_fl thinks creating a plugin for this would be easy, but testing and translating it would take more time. @hellekin offered to test and translate the plugin if created.
What would be the best/simplest way to obtain this: when a user creates a topic in a specific category, the topic belongs to a specific user (e.g., @system). We already have auto-wiki, but this would be different.
I thought about using a wizard, but I did not explore yet how that would work. Especially because I would need an associated link to an external source, and last time I checked the Wizard was unable to do this and associated links seem to have no interface yet.
I may have been a bit hasty with adding the assign tag. Do you mean using the Assign plugin?
No, not at all, I mean “change ownership”, sorry for the
misunderstanding.
I do think it’s a feature request though, and not support.
I can think of creating a plugin or using a webhook. I’ve never created a plugin so I don’t know how hard it would be, but I use a webhook for my forum that triggers a PHP script that makes an API request to Discourse. This is quite simple.
Actually it’s very easy. If I were to write this plugin it should only take 10 minutes. (Then spend 3 hours testing its usability and translation into different languages…)
I think the official name for what I called “associated link” is topic featured link.
@Lhc_fl if you choose to do so, I’ll be happy to test and translate into a couple of languages.