Workflow modal must be closed in every Discourse tab

zogstrip · August 17, 2026, 3:13pm

Thanks for the report @per1234

It’ll be fixed by

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: Close workflow modals in every tab once handled (#42651)

main ← fix-workflow-modal-cross-tab-close

merged 07:57AM - 25 Aug 26 UTC

ZogStriP

+602 -34

Previously, the workflows "Modal" step showed its modal in every tab the target …user had open: answering or dismissing it in one tab left stale copies open everywhere else, and acting on a leftover copy surfaced a misleading "not found" error, since a response token can no longer be matched once its execution has resumed. This change tags every shown modal with a unique id and broadcasts a `close_modal` message on the user's channel whenever the modal is answered or dismissed, closing the remaining copies in all tabs; a response from a leftover copy is now acknowledged as already handled instead of erroring. Reported at https://meta.discourse.org/t/410129

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Workflow modal must be closed in every Discourse tab

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