A few months ago I installed Discourse, added some topics as Index Topic in the Documentation Mode section. Everything worked as expected. backed up everything, deleted the Digital Ocean account, etc. A few days ago I installed Discourse again and restored everything from the backup file I created…

Just checking - have you seen this? [immagine] Discourse Doc Categories Updates for self-hosters For self-hosters using this plugin, our most recent update would require a manual rebuild of the index. This would involve running this rake task: bundle exec rake doc_categories:build_sidebar # if…

Thank you for the link. Since I’m still building the whole structure, I ended up just creating a new topic, copying and pasting the content from the old one, and delete the old topic. I only had 2 of those anyway. So, my question is: is that rake task something I need to do every time I update Dis…

No, that rake task is just a one-time thing from the date of that quoted post. You shouldn’t need to re-create the topic though, just going to category settings, unlinking, saving, and relinking the existing topic at least should work.

[immagine] nat: that rake task is just a one-time thing from the date of that quoted post Just wondering - why wasn’t this implemented as a migration?

From what I recalled at that time — It couldn’t be a migration. Migrations ideally don’t touch application code (because code can drift from when the migration is intended and error out). The PR also indicates the reason: This PR also includes a rake task (doc_categories.rake ) for rebuilding sid…

So, if I understand it correctly, from now on, I don’t need to do any of that? The rake task or the relinking process, whenever I update Discourse? Just want to make sure I understand it.

Yup. It was only a one-time thing.

Awesome! Thank you for clarifying! :raising_hands:

[immagine] nat: You shouldn’t need to re-create the topic though, just going to category settings, unlinking, saving, and relinking the existing topic at least should work. I’m finding that I need to do this every time I edit the index topic, which is a right pain. Am I missing something?

Hey fellow Nat, I’m acknowledging this issue here. I think there is a real problem but will need to reliably repro this. Will get back here sometime next week with good news hopefully.

@nathank quick question, do you have discourse-calendar enabled?

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nat (Natalie T) 15 Aprile 2026, 5:40am 13

Ehi, collega Nat, sto prendendo atto di questo problema.

Penso che ci sia un vero problema, ma dovrò riprodurlo in modo affidabile. Tornerò qui la prossima settimana, sperando con buone notizie.

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