Continuing the discussion from Discourse Canned Replies : Canned Replies are awesome! Posting this as a linked reply so it will not be deleted in one month. It would be really handy to allow canned replies to be available by group (this means trust levels, etc). Currently they are just made avail…

[image] james.network: It would be really handy to allow canned replies to be available by group (this means trust levels, etc). Currently they are just made available to staff. :heart: This feature exists. Search the site settings for canned replies groups. We use this on my forums to give …

And here’s a quick screenshot of all of them: :slightly_smiling_face: [canned replies admin settings]

Yeah, and the next version of the plug-in in which I’m working on will use a category as the base for storing the canned replies. It will be possible for example to use sub-categories to organize groups of canned replies and use the category permissions to specify who can use then. You will be able…

Sérgio Saquetim: It will be possible for example to use sub-categories to organize groups of canned replies and use the category permissions to specify who can use then. You will be able to allow a certain group to use a set canned of canned Replies while other group use another set for example…

Awesome. Would this also apply to groups without a category? 3 groups with 3 different selections of canned replies.

[image] james.network: 3 groups with 3 different selections of canned replies. It will be possible. It will work like this. The canned replies will be stored inside a category. The first post of each topic in this category will be used as the templates. Doing so, it will be possible to crea…

Would the automatically generated “About” page be the first topic created on the category. Perhaps that doesn’t matter. Just popped into my mind.

The “about the category …” topic is ignored. Below is a video of it working:

And Discourse Templates is now live. :partying_face:

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And Discourse Templates is now live.

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