How to create a "New Topic" button in header

<baris>

Here is another simple widget to add a new topic button into the new brand header widget area. This allows your users to create topics from anywhere in the forum:

Go to admin/extend/widgets and create an html widget with the below markup. Don't forget to update your category names and ids in the app.newTopic(cid) calls.

<div class="dropdown">
  <button class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" data-bs-toggle="dropdown">New Topic</button>
  <ul class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-end p-1">
    <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(2);">General Discussion</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(3);">NodeBB Development</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(5);">Feature Requests</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(6);">Bug Reports</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

If you want you can use the widget code from https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17095/how-to-create-a-category-selector-in-navigation to have a more complex category dropdown.

inspiring

How I could add it to bottom menu on mobile?

FrankM

@baris Nice, thank you.

<baris>

@inspiring There is no widget area in the mobile bottom bar, but you can insert the same html with jquery. Place this in your custom javascript tab in the acp.

$(document).ready(() => {
    $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', () => {
      const markup = `<div class="dropdown">
          <button class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" data-bs-toggle="dropdown">New Topic</button>
          <ul class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-end p-1">
            <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(2);">General Discussion</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(3);">NodeBB Development</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(5);">Feature Requests</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(6);">Bug Reports</a></li>
          </ul>
        </div>`;

        $('.bottombar-nav').children().first().after(markup);
    });
});

That would look like this

inspiring

@baris
Thank you.
I tried it but nothing changed
How I can solve it?

<baris>

Did you enable custom javascript at the bottom of that page?

inspiring

@baris
Yes

inspiring

@baris
Thanks, I already had some css codes that affected this
it just got fixed

inspiring

@baris
See what happens when browsing the forum, every time I enter another page, a new button is added to the bottom menu.

phenomlab

@inspiring That's because of 'action:ajaxify.end' being used. Every time the ajax call completes, it adds a new icon. You only need this to load once.

<baris>

Yeah just change the action used to action:app.load

$(document).ready(() => {
    $(window).on('action:app.load', () => {
      const markup = `<div class="dropdown">
          <button class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" data-bs-toggle="dropdown">New Topic</button>
          <ul class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-end p-1">
            <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(2);">General Discussion</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(3);">NodeBB Development</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(5);">Feature Requests</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(6);">Bug Reports</a></li>
          </ul>
        </div>`;

        $('.bottombar-nav').children().first().after(markup);
    });
});

inspiring

@phenomlab
@baris
thank you
Can you guide me on how to add the replay button inside the topics to this section?

<baris>

That requires a bit more javascript see below

$(document).ready(() => {
  $(window).on('action:app.load', () => {
    const newTopicMarkup = `<div id="mobileNewTopic" class="dropdown hidden">
      <button class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" data-bs-toggle="dropdown">New Topic</button>
      <ul class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-end p-1">
      <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(2);">General Discussion</a></li>
      <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(3);">NodeBB Development</a></li>
      <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(5);">Feature Requests</a></li>
      <li><a href="#" class="dropdown-item rounded-1" onclick="app.newTopic(6);">Bug Reports</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>`;
    const newReplyMarkup = `
      <button id="mobileNewReply" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary hidden">New Reply</button>
    `;
    const bottomNav = $('.bottombar-nav');
    bottomNav.children().first().after(newTopicMarkup);
    bottomNav.children().first().after(newReplyMarkup);
    bottomNav.find('#mobileNewReply').on('click', async () => {
      const hooks = await app.require('hooks');
      hooks.fire('action:composer.post.new', {
        tid: ajaxify.data.tid,
        topicName: ajaxify.data.titleRaw,
      });
    });
  })

  $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', () => {
    const bottomNav = $('.bottombar-nav');
    const replyBtn = bottomNav.find('#mobileNewReply');
    const newTopicBtn = bottomNav.find('#mobileNewTopic');
    newTopicBtn.toggleClass('hidden', ajaxify.data.template.topic);
    replyBtn.toggleClass('hidden', !ajaxify.data.template.topic);
  });
});

brazzerstop

@baris

Is't possible to add text to the body a composer this way?

onclick="app.newTopic(2);"

Via onclick function like on this url: /compose?cid=2&body=Hello

<baris>

That function doesn't support the body parameter, we should refactor it so it takes in an object with all the supported params. https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/app.js#L283

refactor app.newTopic/newReply so it takes in an object · Issue #11649 · NodeBB/NodeBB

Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - refactor app.newTopic/newReply so it takes in an object · Issue #11649 · NodeBB/NodeBB

GitHub (github.com)

<baris>

This will be available in 3.2.0.

app.newTopic({ 
  cid: 2, // optional
  title: 'fooo',  // optional
  tags: ['foo1', 'foo2'],  // optional
  body:  'some content here',  // optional
});

app.newReply({
  tid: 2, //required
  pid: 10, //optional
  body: 'some content here', // optional
});

The old versions will still work for backwards compatibility.

feat: allow more params to app.newTopic/newReply · NodeBB/NodeBB@325c195

Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - feat: allow more params to app.newTopic/newReply · NodeBB/NodeBB@325c195

GitHub (github.com)

brazzerstop

This feature is really amazing! Because with this parameter we can create a button for users with topic/post template in composer, like this:

Name (paste your name):
Vin Diesel

Bio (talk about your):
Actor

E-mail (your mail):
[email protected]

OMG, now code block have line numbers

josef

@baris said in How to create a "New Topic" button in header:

app.newReply({
tid: 2, //required
pid: 10, //optional
body: 'some content here', // optional
});

Error:
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@baris said in How to create a "New Topic" button in header:

app.newTopic({
cid: 2, // optional
title: 'fooo', // optional
tags: ['foo1', 'foo2'], // optional
body: 'some content here', // optional
});

Doesn't work, open a new empty topic! No category, tags, title or content
The old writing still works:

app.newTopic(2, ['a', 'b']);

I think it is related to what I commented here, because always params is interpreted as boolean true, even if it is an object

<baris>

@josef, what version of composer-default do you have?

josef

@baris 10.1.6