# How to move topic-notifications-button and invite-reply-button from footer?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-move-topic-notifications-button-and-invite-reply-button-from-footer/44013
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 10, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-move-topic-notifications-button-and-invite-reply-button-from-footer/44013 "2016-05-10T20:51:44Z")
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### Author: ![stevenpslade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stevenpslade/32/53550_2.png) [@stevenpslade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stevenpslade)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-move-topic-notifications-button-and-invite-reply-button-from-footer/44013/1 "2016-05-10T20:51:44Z")

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There are two special buttons in `discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/views/topic-footer-buttons.js.es6`: `topic-notifications-button` and `invite-reply-button`.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/b/eb7f3ad76fef62d95a06952e329a6832028fc21c.png)

I am exploring the possibility of moving these buttons to an area in the first post, probably a widget attached to the post or the post-menu. I am struggling though with how to do this.

One thought I had was to get extend or reopen the `ContainerView` in my plugin:

```
const ContainerView = api.container.lookupFactory('view:container');
  ContainerView.reopen({
  //code in here that would at least recreate putting these buttons on the page

```

However, I can’t **1)** Even recreate the logic in my plugin to show these buttons elsewhere and **2)** think how to move the logic else where.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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### Author: ![stevenpslade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stevenpslade/32/53550_2.png) [@stevenpslade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stevenpslade)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-move-topic-notifications-button-and-invite-reply-button-from-footer/44013/2 "2016-05-10T21:34:29Z")

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It seems as `invite-reply-button` should be an easy one to create. I will simply add the `showInvite` action to the button I create.

The more complicated issue is certainly the `topic-notifications-button`. Unlike the other buttons, it is a component, not a view. Is this an advantage? In Handlebars it would be easy to call the component in the template, how is this done in a widget with virtual-dom?

EDIT: `api.container.lookupFactory("component:" + "topic-notifications-button");` …this is about all I have so far. A possible way to get the component I need, but how to included in vdom widget?