I’m trying to understand how to add a custom field to topics, and working through a very basic example. Goal: Add a custom field called “sample_field” to each topic created, with a simple string value. I’ve reviewed various examples, like the poll plugin and the solved plugin and this discussion , b…

I’m not aware of a perfect example, but might try to develop one at some point. You might have a look at some other plugins to look for examples. I’ll not sure which one off hand. There’s a Discourse repo called something like all-the-plugins, I often grep it to look for stuff. I bet the reactions…

Yes, always look at existing plugins. Here’s an example: plugin.rb af2bb17c1 def include_geo_location? SiteSetting.location_users_map end end public_user_custom_fields = SiteSetting.public_u…

Thanks all–I’ll take a look at these. I mentioned in the original post that I had reviewed a bunch of other examples already. Any thoughts on the code I provided?

Sorry. I didn’t see any obvious (to me) issues. Though I’m getting better at plugin development, I often feel I know just enough to be dangerous.

[image] JQ331: Any thoughts on the code I provided? Potentially over complicated if you can settle for the ‘Discourse way of doing things’, that is: edit the data within the Topic Meta area, and later only when the pencil icon is hit. You only need to render an input box that’s correctly wir…

Here’s another example, with a slightly different input scenario, but still leveraging the same mechanics and hooks: https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-topic-previews/blob/master/assets/javascripts/discourse/connectors/edit-topic/select-thumbnail-connector.hbs plugin.rb 6064a5940 …

Thanks. I’m not familiar with PostRevisor. Looking into that now. [image] merefield: edit the data within the Topic Meta area Not sure what you mean by Topic Meta area. Is that a file you have in mind? (In terms of ui, I know there’s the composer for creating, with the d-editor in there, and…

I consider Category and Tag information to be meta data.

Here’s a currently working basic example of creating a topic custom field, and then setting it. This sets the field when the user clicks a particular button on the topic view page. I note that in the plugins that have topic custom fields, there’s a common use in plugin.rb of PostRevisor (like PostR…

I just published an “education plugin” demonstrating how this is done [image] How to add custom fields to models Extras This is a collection of education plugins that demonstrate how to add a custom field to different models in Discourse. They are intended as …

How to add a super basic topic custom field

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I just published an “education plugin” demonstrating how this is done

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