For a forum I am working on, I am looking to add a complex custom behaviour on the create topic dialog. In this niche forum, every topic revolves around a single image/PDF file.
In short, I want to programmatically modify that file, when user uploads a file, but interactively.
What I mean is, I am looking to create plugin for this behaviour: (assume this is desktop focussed application):
- When user uploads a file, the server render a custom HTML response from the backend.
- I want to create a new dialog for this custom HTML or handlebar. This custom HTML contains editable HTML or embelements like input fields which the user can modify or add to.
- User can make changes and finally save these modifications. These modifications will be used to modify the original file and then I want to keep the modified file only as the attachment.
- Then, they can modify other details like description in the create new topic dialog. Once they click on
create topic, I save the other details of topic, and use the modified attachment, so when the topic is created, everyone sees the modified file.
Modifying file upload in backend is not a concern. In fact, it seems the backend portions are manageable. My concern at this point is creating the new interactive dialog on the UI. Is this something that I can do by creating a plugin ? Or is it too much of a customization that discourse cannot support at this point.
The forum would actually revolve around this behaviour, so this is unfortunately a must have for me.
Any help or guidance is appreciated. Thank you!