I have another university professor interested in using Discourse as a tool to run online classes. I would like to have a means to create an initial Discourse database with a set of sample categories and topics. For example, each course will have a set of categories/subcategories with appropriate …

I just noticed that there is a topic and category import/export command line tool. This solves half my problem, as I can now put all of my customizations in a LMS category and export: [immagine] Move topics from one Discourse instance to another the category all its subcategories its security …

Indeed it might. For now I have created a Python script that creates sets of badges (bronze, silver, gold for people who post in a certain category with a given tag). My target audience probably won’t be likely to be popping into a shell and running rails commands, though.

[immagine] pfaffman: I think that perhaps the easiest/best way to do this is to set up a fresh install, set stuff up like I want it, and back that up. Those who want to use my system would do a fresh install and restore my database. In this way, you lose the time axis. Your default topic may …

[immagine] fantasticfears: In this plugin, several seed_data can be registered (it’s the way to override admin start guide for plugin authors) as well as a lib task. Later on, you invoked this lib task. That sounds like what I need to do. I’ll poke through some plugins and look for an example…

Sorry, I checked the seed_data which is a plain hash and only used for overriding the admin starter guide. It’s not really useful in your case. But a rake task is still worthing considered but you have to prevent it from running twice (maybe define a site setting for checking this). In this way, yo…

Adding default sets of topics, categories and users to a new Discourse

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neil (Neil Lalonde) 18 Aprile 2016, 7:00pm 3

A similar badge export/import tool would probably be very handy too.

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Adding default sets of topics, categories and users to a new Discourse

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