I’m new to Ruby on Rails and Ember js(but have programming knowledge and working on PHP with laravel and also have experience with JavaScript). My requirement is while posting reply to a topic the user will select category and sub-category(e.g: if topic is about a particular smart phone, then the r…

Hi ShankarG welcome to the forum I’m a bit confused as to what your intent is. I think of Category - Topic -> Post as being kind of “top down”, “parent - child”, or “has many - has one” type of relationship. Your first mock-up has separate inputs for Category and Sub-Category. Currently, Sub-Cate…

If the aim is categorisation in terms subjects as per you explained earlier it might be wise looking at using tags

Looks like you want category and subcategory per post. So you don’t want categories at all, better call it custom field 1 and custom field 2, per post. This is doable with a plugin, but will take some work.

Thank’s for you reply, You got my concept clearly and also I have planned to implement it with custom fields for post and PluginStore. As I’m newbie to ember and rails, I didn’t know how to store, update, read, display the custom fields from plugin and to work with PluginStore. Can’t find document…

My concept is as @Falco describe, [quote=“ShankarG, post:5, topic:49782”] As I’m newbie to ember and rails, I didn’t know how to store, update, read, display the custom fields from plugin and to work with PluginStore. Can’t find documentation in Beginner’s Guide to Creating Plugin for there functi…

it may help: [image] Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to…

I have gone through this guides (all 5 parts), but none of this explains working with store, update display using custom fields for post and PluginStore(used by plugins to store data in DB).

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