Cannot add sidebar via Objects setting editor

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Hello! I am an admin on the https://forum.image.sc discourse site. This is currently the error I am getting when I try to add a new entry to our Topic List Sidebars component:

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Steps to Recreate

  1. Open Admin section
  2. Under Appearance, select Themes & components
  3. Under Components, click Edit next to Topic List Sidebars entry
  4. Click Objects setting editor
  5. Scroll to the bottom and click + sidebar and select the new topic
  6. Scroll back to the top and enter name, tag, and topic_id
  7. Scroll back to the bottom and click Save Changes
  8. Error message appears and sidebar fails to save

Alternatives tried (same failure)

  • Ensuring that the component is up-to-date
  • Adding a category
  • Adding multiple valid tags
  • Removing - from tag name

Workaround

Instead of using the Objects setting editor, if I use the Settings Editor button at the bottom of the Topic List Sidebars component edit page I am able to directly edit the JSON. I was able to successfully manually create an entry with the same data thatā€™s being rejected by the GUI.

This suggests to me that there is an error in the save logic detecting the tags and wrapping it/them into an array.

Last Success

A sidebar was added to the site on Jan 5, at which point the GUI entry was functioning as expected.

Additional Notes

  • In the Edit sidebars setting page, the fact that the sidebars arenā€™t in a scrolling component means that, with a sufficiently long list of sidebars, the error message and data entry arenā€™t in view when clicking Save Changes. I actually didnā€™t even realize there was a problem at first.
  • This was compounded by the error message providing an index instead of the name, which made it unclear what was failing validation.

Thank you for the support!

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Thanks for the thorough report, it made it much easier to track down. This required a fix in Discourse, you should receive this the next time your site is updated.

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