Cannot find "Set a topic timer" or "enable topic timers" setting (Admin, v3.6.0.beta2)

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Hello everyone,

I am an administrator on a freshly installed self-hosted Discourse forum and I am trying to schedule the publication of a new topic. My version is 3.6.0.beta2-latest.

I followed the guides, but I can’t find the feature. Here’s what I did:

  1. I am an administrator (and also in the Level 4 Moderator group).

  2. I created a new topic.

  3. I clicked on the wrench icon (:wrench:) at the bottom of the first post.

  4. The option “Set Topic Timer” is missing from this menu.

So I went into the admin panel to look for the setting:

  1. I went to Administration > All Settings.

  2. I searched for activer les minuteurs de sujet, minuteur, or even in English topic timer.

  3. All searches returned “No results found”.

After investigation, I continued the diagnosis:

  1. I checked Administration > Plugins and saw that the “Discourse Automation” plugin was installed but disabled.

  2. I therefore enabled the “Discourse Automation” plugin.

  3. I refreshed the topic page and checked the wrench menu (:wrench:) again. The “Set Topic Timer” option is still missing.

  4. I went back to Administration > All Settings and searched again for minuteur and topic timer. Both still return “No results found”.

I’m stuck. It seems the setting to enable this feature doesn’t exist in my admin panel, even with the Discourse Automation plugin enabled.

A final observation: when I go to Administration > All Settings, I can see all the categories in the left sidebar (Required, Branding, General, Login, Users, Security, etc.), but I do not see a “Topics” category.

Am I missing a step, or has this feature been moved? Or is the absence of the “Topics” settings category the real problem?

Thank you for your help.

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Welcome to Meta :waving_hand:

The topic timer is in the topic menu, not in the post menu.

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You don’t need the automation plugin for scheduled publishing.

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Hello @Moin,

Thank you very much.

So I wasn’t looking in the right menu :wink:

I feel a bit silly. Sorry for the trouble.

In any case, thank you very much for the feedback.

Have a good day.
Sincerely.

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