Allow “Mark as Solution” in group messages

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In group messages, the “Mark as Solution” button—provided by the discourse‑solved plugin—is no longer visible to users who previously had access to it. The button still appears correctly in topics:

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This is a group message where we had used the button in the past and shows there’s a Solution, but the button to enable/disable is no longer there:

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Is this a recent change or a bug, and is there any way to restore the button in group messages?

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Are you saying it used to work for you in group personal messages? I have not seen that before and thought it was not possible, as per this other topic:

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Interesting, based on that topic asking to offer the solved/unsolved filter in inboxes, I would expect the user was already using the solved plugin in inboxes. So I assume it worked when the feature was requested. Why do you conclude that it didn’t work at all?

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Agreed. I don’t see how it can be enabled for group messages. Maybe that was a topic that was solved, and then converted to a message? What happens in that case?

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Yes! depending on the version installed. Updating from 3.4.0.beta3-dev to 3.5.0.beta7-dev removes this feature

This is how it works on a group message on 3.4.0.beta3-dev:

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Thanks!

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There was a change in February: FIX: don't allow or count solutions in PMs by ZogStriP · Pull Request #334 · discourse/discourse-solved · GitHub

Pretty straightforward, this ensures we don’t allow users to mark a post as a solution in a PM.

This also ensures we don’t count solutions in topics that were converted to a PM.

Internal ref t/146766

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Is that really intended? at least it should be available for group messages

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I think this should be moved from Support to either Bug or Feature.

Since it worked until February and now no longer works, I’d choose Bug. But I don’t know what was discussed in the internal topic.

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I’ve moved it to Feature as this change was intentional.

@Gerard_Cobas can you share more about your use case?

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I do see two other related requests as well

I’ll do some topic merging in a bit, but in the meantime, continuing the discussion here is fine.

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The second one is about adding the solved/unsolved filter, which of course requires the solved plugin in group inboxes. But it’s a different request.