This plugin is being retired in favour of the experimental Doc Categories plugin. We will still support Docs until the new plugin is no longer considered experimental.
Summary
Discourse Docs provides the ability to find and filter knowledge base topics
The Discourse Docs plugin is a powerful tool that transforms your Discourse forum into a community-powered knowledge base. It provides a dedicated Docs section where users can create, update, and curate documentation. This plugin features a Docs button that allows easy access to this section. It’s a great way to leverage the collective knowledge of your community and provide a centralized resource for important information.
In essence, Docs allows for easier surfacing of knowledge-base style topics across a defined set of categories and/or tags.
Filter the list down by tags, search via the search bar, and click on topics to see the first post – all without leaving the context of the knowledge explorer.
For the change to take effect you can either ./launcher rebuild app or, as it’s an environment variable, you can ./launcher destroy app && ./launcher start app to minimise downtime. There’s a little more info on that here - Set Environmental Variables
You may also want to change the site display text as well to match. You can search for all instances of ‘docs’ from your /admin/customize/site_texts page, but the main ones would be:
➜ discourse git:(main) ✗ LOAD_PLUGINS=1 bundle exec rspec plugins/discourse-docs/spec
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Failures:
1) Discourse Docs | Index topic excerpts when the theme modifier serialize_topic_excerpts is true shows the excerpts
Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_css(".topic-excerpt", text: topic_1.excerpt)
expected to find css ".topic-excerpt" but there were no matches
[Screenshot Image]: /xxxx/discourse/discourse/tmp/capybara/failures_r_spec_example_groups_discourse_docs_index_topic_excerpts_when_the_theme_modifier_serialize_topic_excerpts_is_true_shows_the_excerpts_460.png
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# ./plugins/discourse-docs/spec/system/docs_index_spec.rb:52:in `block (4 levels) in <main>'
# ./spec/rails_helper.rb:469:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
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36 examples, 1 failure
Failed examples:
rspec ./plugins/discourse-docs/spec/system/docs_index_spec.rb:50 # Discourse Docs | Index topic excerpts when the theme modifier serialize_topic_excerpts is true shows the excerpts
Randomized with seed 57815
This plugin is being retired in favour of the experimental Doc Categories plugin. We will still support Docs until the new plugin is no longer considered experimental.
