Create custom fields in composer

Ali Hussain

Hey,

How can I listen to a hook just before a composer is open.

I want to create a plugin that add custom fields to the composer (and post) based on the category. So I need to listen to a hook that can give me the category id as I open a composer to create/edit a post.

Regards,

julian

@Ali-Hussain hello there

You'll want to listen to one of the client-side hooks fired by the composer-default plugin.

For example, filter:composer.create is fired right before the composer template is parsed.

import on from 'hooks';

on('filter:composer.create', ({ postData, createData }) => {
  // change things here
});

Look inside the file static/lib/composer.js in nodebb-plugin-composer-default to see other hooks fired by the composer plugin.

Ali Hussain

I have tried filter:composer.create and filter:composer.build and both are not firing, the only filter hook that is firing for me is filter:composer.formatting but that does not have the correct data i need (for example the catogory, etc)

I am using nodebb v3.0

thx for your help

KShervington

Hi @Ali-Hussain ,
Did you ever figure this out?
I am trying to do something similar by adding a custom field to the post object based on a button I've added to the composer.