I see from some digging that a custom_fields property exists on posts/topics and plugins make extensive use of it. Is this field available through the API? Can it be set? Can it be queried against? Could a search be made for a topic with a certain value for a custom field?

I have this exact same question. All the dialogue I see is about custom fields for users, not a general discussion :confused:

[immagine] jgujgu: I have this exact same question. All the dialogue I see is about custom fields for users, not a general discussion Custom Fields are possible for topics, categories, users and posts. Users are the common case, and can be created from the Admin UI and filled in user prefere…

@Falco thank you for the clarification. I will look to these plugins as examples. I finally found what I was looking for… register_custom_field_type(). Prior to seeing this, I was rather confused on how the database handled the type information. Well, now I know :smiley:

@Falco a belated thanks for the link to the Signatures plugin. Not only do I wholeheartedly approve of old-style forum signatures, but it’s a great example of putting user custom fields to work for this new Discourse developer.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I haven’t been able to answer this question by searching meta. Are custom_fields available on post/topics via the API? In the answer above , @Falco talks about how custom_fields are available to the plugin developer, but I see no definitive answer to the qu…

You can post events plugin events via the API. There’s an example here: [immagine] Events Plugin calendar Plugin It is now slight_smile https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events/commit/33ba86f66e22afaab30dd64eb0e51e45f17860c9 To add a date and tim…

You, sir, are a gent of the highest order! It’s working now. For fellow travellers, it seems that you can’t use the Ruby API gem’s create_topic method… client.create_topic(...) …as it looks like the API only passes known fields through. Instead, I had to use the raw client’s post method, like s…

Are custom_fields on posts/topics available via the API?

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angus (Angus McLeod) 24 Ottobre 2018, 8:49am 7

You can post events plugin events via the API. There’s an example here:

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Are custom_fields on posts/topics available via the API?

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