Is it possible to customize the footer of a post via a plugin?

jszsj

I'm trying to add more actions for posts at the footer of posts with a specific tag, is this possible to implement via a plugin?

<baris>

You can inject your custom elements in your plugin javascript, the container is component="post/actions". Use a hook like action:posts.loaded

eeeee

@jszsj May be easier with a custom Widget. What do you want the new buttons in the footer to do?

oplik0

If you're fine with using the tools menu (under three dots) you can use filter:post.tools hook to add your own action there.
For an example see the Question and Answer plugin: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-question-and-answer/blob/e339a029c1633aa1cadc5e7df7cfa7c322fef435/library.js#L200-L217

jszsj

@baris I'll give it a try, thanks!

jszsj

@eeeee I want to add a link to launch a local app via url protocol

jszsj

@oplik0 I think it's not very convenient to have it in the tools menu, but maybe I need the tools menu some day, your example link will be helpful, thanks!

eeeee

@jszsj said in Is it possible to customize the footer of a post via a plugin?:

I want to add a link to launch a local app via url protocol

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, local app .. where? Local to the nodebb server?
Whats the app going to be doing. Just wondering if that can be coded in the widget?

oplik0

@eeeee Probably local to the user computer

You can generally use non-http URIs for launching different applications. If you were ever redirected from a desktop or mobile app to a browser to log in you've probably seen this in action. Windows actually uses some internally and usually transparently for the user (for example, to abuse their monopoly, MS started using microsoft-edge: scheme instead of https: in some links in Windows to only allow opening them in Edge. They didn't have to build some highly custom mechanism, just restrict other apps from registering this scheme), but usually can be just registered by applications you install. What they do also depends on the application - for example, I think calculator: only launches the calculator app (or at least the obvious way to write math doesn't work), but others can launch specific actions and even pass some information (for example, authentication token for the web login use case I mentioned). For example Spotify allows linking to artists, playlists, albums etc. via spotify: scheme and steam supports doing a ton of things via URI, including launching and even installing/uninstalling games.

All you need is an <a> tag with the right href= set. So yeah, you can put that kind of a link in a widget, but if they wanted to have it be an action under a post, especially if it was supposed to include some information from the post, it wouldn't be that simple.
(side note: NodeBB doesn't allow links using non-standard schemes in markdown, so you can't just put something like this in a post or signature)