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Summary | Discourse Policy gives the ability to confirm your users have seen or done something, with optional reminders. |
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Install Guide | This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. |
Features
Discourse policy shares much of its DNA with polls, it has the goal of ensuring members of a group accept certain policies by clicking a button.
It has some specific features that set it apart from polls:
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It must apply to a group.
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It can optionally nag members of a group either weekly or daily to click accept on a policy.
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The UX makes it very easy to see who accepted and who did not accept a policy.
Configuration
Screenshots
Before clicking accept
After clicking “grey” person on top right
After clicking accept
Creating a policy
Discourse policy registers a custom [policy] BBCode element. Which means you need to write this block of code in your post where you want to show this policy.
[policy group=founders reminder=daily]
I accept this policy will annoy me daily until I click accept
[/policy]
In this case the policy applies to the founders group and a reminder is sent daily to all users that did not accept the policy.
Site settings
policy_enabled : Enable the discourse policy plugin on the site.
policy_restrict_to_staff_posts: Policies may only appear on staff posts.
policy easy revoke: Show the accept and revoke buttons at the same time.
BBCode attributes
The [policy] element can accept the following attributes.
- group: the group name that policy will apply to required
- version: the version number of the policy, bump number up to require all users re-accept the policy
- reminder: remind users of the group to accept policy (weekly or daily), optional, default off
- accept: text used for accept button, default is “Accept Policy”
- revoke: text used for revoke button, default is “Revoke Policy”
- renew: number of days or text describing period (monthly, quarterly or yearly) after which a user needs to re-accept policy
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renew-start: the first date renewals will start at Eg:
17-10-2017, useful if you want to set the renewal cadence so it happens every half-year (Jan,June) - add-users-to-group: accepts a single group as input; users who accept the policy will be automatically added into this group (when policy is manually revoked or if the policy version is updated, user(s) gets removed from group)
- private: hide users who accepted/did not accept the policy
The backend job to check for policy reminders runs every 6 hours. If the
reminderelement is set to weekly or daily, users who have not accepted a policy will be sent notification reminders to accept the policy only if they have not already received a reminder notification for the policy within the past week or day.
Usage examples
Basic policy:
[policy group="team" reminder="daily" accept="Accept" revoke="Ignore" version="1"]
I have read, understand and acknowledge this policy.
[/policy]
Bumping the revision number, to require that everyone reads the update:
[policy group="team" reminder="daily" accept="Accept" revoke="Ignore" version="2"]
I have read, understand and acknowledge this policy. (Last updated [date=2020-04-23 timezone="America/Los_Angeles"])
[/policy]
Periodic auditing task:
[policy group="audit_committee" reminder="weekly" renew="90" renew-start="01-07-2019" version="1" accept="Assignment Complete"]
I have ensured that someone is assigned to this quarterly audit task.
[/policy]
CHANGELOG
TODO
- Optional immediate reminder for new policies
- Possibly allow certain groups to apply policies (expanding on staff)
Last edited by @david 2025-07-22T13:14:42Z
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