Is “in topic overview of other topics” via transclusion (oneboxing) somewhere on the roadmap?
https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=category%3Abug%20status%3Aopen%20tag%3Apr-welcome
sorry can you expand, I am not following.
Sorry.
The above described feature seems very powerful as a data source ( reminding me on data views in obsidian).
As tested above, there is no oneboxing / preview support built in (yet), which would render results inside a post, as other links inside already do:
With additional options (for example how many topics to display) this would allow a dynamic meta overview of other topics inside of topics.
Side note: I had to change the example onebox link above, since splitting topics breaks links to posts. I would like to learn, how to prevent that.
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I see, yeah, moved this to feature requests, it is a very interesting idea.
There is lots to untangle here, 2 biggest would be:
- How many topics should it show (how do you control that)
- How “dynamic” is the list? How often is it updated
Implementation wise it is possible an IFRAME of sorts could achieve something interesting and also allow you to embed in 3rd party sites.
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There could be output formatting options like limit:5 and format:with-summaries to start with.
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the output could be transformed with other plugins with their own formatting language / options (for example a list of columns to show).
What are current rules for oneboxing regarding this question?
Since the result is filtered with the users individual rights could one consider caching the unfiltered result and a filtered result for anonymous users, applying permission checks on demand for users with more rights?
Current internal oneboxes have the option to be expanded.
A similar approach might update the cached version on demand (with throttle).