Getting Category's custom field value from Topic

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I have created custom category field enable_bump_topic (by example of @SamSaffron’s discourse-solved plugin). But I don’t seem to get how could I access this custom field when on Topic. I created canBump computed property for Topic (https://github.com/jannolii/discourse-bump-topic/blob/master/assets/javascripts/discourse/initializers/extend-topic-for-bump-button.js.es6) but I only get value out from Category’s custom field when I first visit Category and open Edit form and then go to this Categroy’s topic. If I go directly to Topic I get undefined when try to access custom_fields. It’s like custom_fields doesn’t exist before I go and look at the Category settings.

What am I missing? What am I not getting?

My (still very raw) project: https://github.com/jannolii/discourse-bump-topic

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You need to add it to the serializer of the page you want it to be, or make an additional request to an endpoint that will give you this value.

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Thanks. Could there be an example where custom field is being added to a serializer? Quick scan didn’t reveal such thing being used in some popular plugins

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https://github.com/xfalcox/discourse-signatures/blob/master/plugin.rb#L20-L26

Here code it’s adding a new field to the post serializer. You need something similar, but adding a new field to the topic serializer I think.

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Thanks a lot! Now I’m starting to get somewhere :wink: