I'm getting all available categories for a user with categories.getCategoriesByPrivilege. Then I append to it with
categories.getRecentTopicReplies. I'm not getting what I want, only the top post (reply).

What I want is the following; a list of all topics with recent posts (preferably with a max limit in time range), within my available categories. What the client I'm working for want is a feed type thing with all recent activity displayed in one single flow. Then I will also drill down into specific categories but I think I've got that covered.

This is where I'm at so far:

Controllers.renderFeedPage = function (req, res) {
	if (!req.uid) {
		res.render('feed', {});
	}
	let categoriesData;
	let tree;

	async.waterfall([
		(next) => {
			categories.getCategoriesByPrivilege('categories:cid', req.uid, 'find', next);
		},
		(_categoriesData, next) => {
			categoriesData = _categoriesData;

			tree = categories.getTree(categoriesData, 0);
			categories.getRecentTopicReplies(categoriesData, req.uid, next);
		},
		() => {
			const data = {
				title: meta.config.homePageTitle || '[[pages:home]]',
				categories: tree,
			};
			res.render('feed', data);
		},
	]);
};

I haven't found a good example from the forum and I'm reading source code at this point.

If anyone has done something similar I would really appreciate the input and a nudge in the right direction.

Thanks!

Turned out I was fetching the post data wrong. I was using getPostData when i should've been using getPostsByPids.

@baris Nice! Thank you so much! Exactely what I was looking for.

When you fetch the categories a user can see by privilege, is there a way of telling whether the category is visible for everyone or if they are "private"?

Is there a way I can get the privileges assigned to a user and compare those to the privileges required for a category?

I'm browsing source right now, but if anyone have the answer on the top of their head, please give me a hand to save time.

In my plugin I write a lot of custom CSS (with LESS) and I do some overrides to speed things up (kind of tight deadline). one example is a custom btn-primary from bootstrap. I'm having a problem where this gets propagated into the admin view. I want to keep everything in the administration panel the way it is. Right now I'm solving it by doing this in my top LESS.file.

body:not(.admin) {
  @import "buttons";
  @import "help";
  @import "login";
}

The problem I'm facing is that i can't do something like body { display: none; } in another file since it's a child of that first file. I need to either add the style at the top with no surrounding class (which of course creates a lint problem), or add a class to the very top, like so &.page-login { css }.

Is there an easier way to just exclude admin from css?

Thanks!

Turned out I was fetching the post data wrong. I was using getPostData when i should've been using getPostsByPids.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. That might be a part of what I'm aiming for.

I want to create an array of topics that I can display in my "feed". Those topics can be added to the array by two reasons.

1. It's a recently created topic.
2. It contains recent posts. (So maybe I can use tour suggestion here)

The idea is just to have the new content presented when you first log in. I could look at Recent and Popular I think.

Once again, thank you!

So I'm creating a plugin to use a hidden category (named "Help") to store an FAQ. Basically any admin can add a topic to the category and the first post will be the content.

So my custom route /help gets all topics passed to the template but I just get the post content unformatted. So no new lines, no image tags etc. I believe it's Markdown. So how do I get the content with formatting?

This is what I'm using right now:

Controllers.renderHelpPage = (req, res) => {
	let fetchedTopics;
	let fetchedPosts;
	async.waterfall([
		(next) => {
			categories.getAllCategories(req.uid, next);
		},
		(_categories, next) => {
			const helpCategory = _categories.find(category => category.name === 'Help');
			categories.getCategoryById({
				cid: helpCategory.cid,
				set: 'cid:' + helpCategory.cid + ':tids',
				reverse: false,
				start: 0,
				stop: 100,
				uid: req.uid,
			}, next);
		},
		(_helpCategory, next) => {
			const tids = _helpCategory.topics.map(topic => topic.tid);
			topics.getTopics(tids, req.uid, next);
		},
		(_topics, next) => {
			fetchedTopics = _topics;
			const pids = _topics.map(topic => topic.mainPid);
			posts.getPostsData(pids, next);
		},
		(_posts) => {
			fetchedPosts = _posts;

			const data = fetchedTopics.map(topic => ({
				title: topic.title,
				content: fetchedPosts.find(post => post.tid === topic.tid).content,
			}));

			res.render('help', {
				items: data,
			});
		},
	]);
};

Thanks!

I'm getting all available categories for a user with categories.getCategoriesByPrivilege. Then I append to it with
categories.getRecentTopicReplies. I'm not getting what I want, only the top post (reply).

What I want is the following; a list of all topics with recent posts (preferably with a max limit in time range), within my available categories. What the client I'm working for want is a feed type thing with all recent activity displayed in one single flow. Then I will also drill down into specific categories but I think I've got that covered.

This is where I'm at so far:

Controllers.renderFeedPage = function (req, res) {
	if (!req.uid) {
		res.render('feed', {});
	}
	let categoriesData;
	let tree;

	async.waterfall([
		(next) => {
			categories.getCategoriesByPrivilege('categories:cid', req.uid, 'find', next);
		},
		(_categoriesData, next) => {
			categoriesData = _categoriesData;

			tree = categories.getTree(categoriesData, 0);
			categories.getRecentTopicReplies(categoriesData, req.uid, next);
		},
		() => {
			const data = {
				title: meta.config.homePageTitle || '[[pages:home]]',
				categories: tree,
			};
			res.render('feed', data);
		},
	]);
};

I haven't found a good example from the forum and I'm reading source code at this point.

If anyone has done something similar I would really appreciate the input and a nudge in the right direction.

Thanks!

Thanks @baris, I will have a look.

I'm really new to NodeBB and am struggling a bit to understand the templating system. I'm currently making a theme with is based on persona. I want to make a custom profile section on the left side of the main content. Kind of like adding a widget but always there. I need access to the user object to get the image etc but I cannot seem to access it. In menu.tplit is simply used as such (as an example):

<label for="user-control-list-check" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" id="user_dropdown" title="[[global:header.profile]]" role="button">
  <!-- IF user.picture -->
  <img component="header/userpicture" src="{user.picture}" alt="{user.username}"/>
  <!-- ELSE -->
  <span component="header/usericon" class="user-icon" style="background-color: {user.icon:bgColor}; display: block;">{user.icon:text}</span>
  <!-- ENDIF user.picture -->
  <span id="user-header-name" class="visible-xs-inline">{user.username}</span>
</label>

I'm trying to use it in a partial called global-user-sidebar.tpl, like so:

<div class="col-md-2 hidden-sm hidden-xs">
  <!-- IF user.picture -->
  <img component="global-user-sidebar/userpicture" src="{user.picture}" alt="{user.username}"/>
  <!-- ELSE -->
  <span component="global-user-sidebar/usericon" class="user-icon" style="background-color: {user.icon:bgColor}; display: block;">{user.icon:text}</span>
  <!-- ENDIF user.picture -->
</div>

I import the partial like this (in categories.tpl) <!-- IMPORT partials/custom/global-user-sidebar.tpl -->

user is undefined so nothing gets printed. I can however access everything passed from /api/categories.

What am I missing? How come I can't access the user object? How can the menu template do so? Any help is appreciated.

And yes, I have searched the forum and read up on the documentation, but I believe I'm just doing something wrong.