I’m looking to get a topic’s category id to use in javascript. Since this info is already being pulled to grab the category tag in each topic for handlebars, I was wondering if I could use that somehow? A likely helpful piece of code could be this: Discourse.TopicRoute.on("setupTopicController", f…

Here’s how I’m doing it in the feature voting plugin : https://github.com/joebuhlig/discourse-feature-voting/blob/master/assets/javascripts/initializers/feature-voting.js.es6#L10 You get the topic first and then (if I remember correctly) you can do this: topic.category.id PS. I believe with the p…

Thanks for this @joebuhlig . So you think if you reopen the TopicRoute, we should be ble to get the topic with var topic = this.modelFor('topic'); and then the rest with topic.category.id?

That’s how I’m doing it here: [image] Discourse Topic Voting Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Topic Voting gives the ability to vote on topics in a specified category. [1] open_book Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no …

Hook for a topic's category id?

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joebuhlig (Joe Buhlig) February 24, 2016, 10:34pm 5

That’s how I’m doing it here:

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Hook for a topic's category id?

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