Do topic custom fields add a column to the topics model? I am getting an error saying no, and I’m trying to figure out what to do about it. I have created a topic custom field in development, following here . Let’s call it fun_level. The custom field seems to be successfully created in development…

There is a TopicCustomField model. You want that. Maybe have a look at Topic List Previews (legacy) or some other plugin that mucks with topics. Or maybe see HasCustomFields somewhere in discourse core.

Thanks–I was starting to figure something like that must be going on. So perhaps I’d need to do a join with that model (really having to dust off my rails here). I’ve tried something like this: Topic.joins(:topic_custom_field).where(fun_level: 'super-duper-fun') } but I get the error: ActiveRecord…

I can’t find a TopicCustomField this instant (but I told you where to look! :wink) Here’s this: [4] pry(main)> CategoryCustomField.last => #<CategoryCustomField:0x000055be74a00bd0 id: 2, category_id: 8, name: "enable_accepted_answers", value: "true", created_at: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:45:07.8626…

Error: PG::UndefinedColumn. Custom field not creating column

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JQ331 August 11, 2021, 10:29pm 5

Cool. Thanks for the info. I’ll experiment with it.

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Error: PG::UndefinedColumn. Custom field not creating column

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