A setting to allow non-post-owner(s) to check checkboxes (without making the post a wiki)

meglio
Sat, 30 Dec 2023 07:20:21 +0000
Feature

As a team manager using Discourse, I often describe tasks and subtasks in a medium-to-long post, and I put checkmarks where I suggest things should be completed and marked as done. It’s been very helpful for both me and the team, for both sides to track the progress and not miss/forget any small detail.

Now, the only way for me to make others check the checkboxes is to make my posts wiki. This is wrong conceptually: I do not want them to edit my posts; but I want them to be able to check the checkboxes.

So my suggestion is to add a setting to a topic (or an individual post, or a whole category, or a tag, etc) that would allow certain group(s) to check checkboxes within my posts, or within posts of anybody.

The only purpose of the checkbox is to check/uncheck it, so a little bit more flexibility over who can do that would be very helpful.

Note: I’m not putting all checkboxes in the first post of the topic. I (and others) add them as we discuss things in the topic, which proved to be very convenient. This is also why I also suggested Topic Checkboxes - a dynamic check list showing all checkboxes from all topic messages

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