Troubleshooting recent cards plugin not showing any topics

[baris]

@DownPW looks like 0 topics are loaded for your user account, now in the same file there is another function called getTopics replace it with the below and let me know the output.

async function getTopics(widget) {
	async function getTopicsFromSet(set, start, stop) {
		let tids = await db.getSortedSetRevRangeByScore(set, start, stop, Date.now(), '-inf');
		tids = await topics.filterNotIgnoredTids(tids, widget.uid);
		let topicsData = await topics.getTopics(tids, {
			uid: widget.uid,
			teaserPost: widget.data.teaserPost || 'first',
		});
		topicsData = await user.blocks.filter(widget.uid, topicsData);
		return { topics: topicsData };
	}

	let topicsData = {
		topics: [],
	};
	let filterCids = getIdsArray(widget.data, 'topicsFromCid');
	if (!filterCids.length && widget.templateData.cid) {
		filterCids = [parseInt(widget.templateData.cid, 10)];
	}

	widget.data.sort = widget.data.sort || 'recent';
	let fromGroups = widget.data.fromGroups || [];
	if (fromGroups && !Array.isArray(fromGroups)) {
		fromGroups = [fromGroups];
	}
	// hard coded to show these topic tids only
	const topicsTids = getIdsArray(widget.data, 'topicsTids');
	if (topicsTids.length) {
		topicsData.topics = await topics.getTopics(topicsTids, {
			uid: widget.uid,
			teaserPost: widget.data.teaserPost || 'first',
		});
	} else if (fromGroups.length) {
		const uids = _.uniq(_.flatten(await groups.getMembersOfGroups(fromGroups)));
		const sets = uids.map((uid) => {
			if (filterCids.length) {
				return filterCids.map(cid => `cid:${cid}:uid:${uid}:tids`);
			}
			return `uid:${uid}:topics`;
		});
		topicsData = await getTopicsFromSet(sets.flat(), 0, 19);
		topicsData.topics.sort((t1, t2) => {
			if (widget.data.sort === 'recent') {
				return t2.lastposttime - t1.lastposttime;
			} else if (widget.data.sort === 'votes') {
				return t2.votes - t1.votes;
			} else if (widget.data.sort === 'posts') {
				return t2.postcount - t1.postcount;
			}
			return 0;
		});
	} else if (filterCids.length) {
		let searchSuffix = '';
		if (widget.data.sort === 'recent') {
			searchSuffix += ':lastposttime';
		} else if (widget.data.sort === 'votes' || widget.data.sort === 'posts') {
			searchSuffix += `:${widget.data.sort}`;
		}
		topicsData = await getTopicsFromSet(
			filterCids.map(cid => `cid:${cid}:tids${searchSuffix}`), 0, 19
		);
	} else {
		topicsData = await topics.getSortedTopics({
			uid: widget.uid,
			start: 0,
			stop: 19,
			sort: widget.data.sort,
			teaserPost: widget.data.teaserPost || 'first',
		});
		console.log('  loaded topics =>', topicsData.topics.length);
		// filter out scheduled
		topicsData.topics = topicsData.topics.filter(t => t && !t.scheduled);
		console.log('  scheduled topics filtered =>', topicsData.topics.length);
	}

	let i = 0;
	const cids = [];
	let finalTopics = [];

	if (!plugin.settings.get('enableCarousel')) {
		while (finalTopics.length < 4 && i < topicsData.topics.length) {
			const cid = parseInt(topicsData.topics[i].cid, 10);

			if (filterCids.length || !cids.includes(cid)) {
				cids.push(cid);
				finalTopics.push(topicsData.topics[i]);
			}

			i += 1;
		}
	} else {
		finalTopics = topicsData.topics;
	}
	console.log('  finalsTopics =>', finalTopics.length);
	return finalTopics;
}

[DownPW]

@baris

checkVisibility {
  cid: '',
  topicsFromCid: '',
  topicsTids: '',
  teaserPost: 'last-post',
  sort: 'recent',
  title: '',
  container: '',
  groups: [ 'administrators', 'all' ],
  startDate: '',
  endDate: '',
  groupsHideFrom: []
} true false 
is widget visible? recentCards true
  loaded topics => 20
  scheduled topics filtered => 0
  finalsTopics => 0
how many topics? 0

is recent cards rendered ? 

is widget renderered? recentCards 

is widget translated? recentCards 1

[baris]

 loaded topics => 20
 scheduled topics filtered => 0

That means there were more than 20 scheduled topics do you have a lot of scheduled topics?

[DownPW]

yes @baris, the other administrator actually wrote a lot of scheduled topics (x21)

[baris]

Yeah that's why, recent cards plugin is loading the most recent 20 topics and then filtering the ones that are scheduled since you have more than 20, nothing is left to display. I will make small change in recent-cards plugin so it loads more if they are all scheduled.

[DownPW]

Ok @baris, in the meantime, does that mean that I have to publish his subjects so that the widget works correctly again i guess?

[baris]

Either that or you can wait until I publish a new version of recent-cards plugin.

[DownPW]

ha ha okay

If that's it, what do I do? I kick his butt?!!

Enough jokes, I'll try to publish a few to see if it works again and I'll tell you again.
5 or 6 topics would be enough @baris ?

[baris]

@DownPW try with [email protected]

[DownPW]

wow fast
Test this version now

[baris]

You would have to publish some of the most recent ones and they would probably show up in the recent cards plugin.

[DownPW]

I don't see 3.2.1 on ACP @baris

[baris]

Install it with npm i [email protected] Then restart nodebb, you can remove all the console.logs as well.

[DownPW]

if I install like this @baris , I could receive other future updates of the plugin via the ACP?

[baris]

@DownPW yes

[DownPW]

OK, do it know and tell you without publish scheduled topics.

[DownPW]

Seems to work yeahhhh

[DownPW]

A big thanks to you for debug with me @baris !!!

--> Have you given a limit of scheduled topics so that I may know if the other admin decides not to stop?

[baris]

@DownPW no worries, there is no limit I changed the recent-cards plugin so it loads topics until it finds some. So you can have 100 scheduled topics if you want

[DownPW]

cool @baris

On the other hand that doesn't really explain to me why this was only done for admins unless it's because only admins can see scheduled topics and in this case, it's related.

Sorry, I like to understand the why and the how.