Currently, we display a mix of topics and notifications in the user menu
assignments tab. This has a number of issues like having to maintain
hard to understand code instead of simply relying on the notifications
system we have, we can’t display more than one assignment per topic and
it’s not clear if an assignment is for a topic or a post nor if it’s a
group assignment or an individual one.
This patch addresses those issues by relying on the notifications system
we’re using for most of the other user menu tabs instead of a custom
implementation. This led to some heavy refactoring but it was
worthwhile as things are a bit more normalized and easier to reason
about. Instead of serializing topics with different attributes to access
various assignments, we now simply return a notification for each
existing assignment.
The UI changed a bit: tooltips are now explaining if the assignment is
for a topic or a post and if it’s for an individual or a group. Icons
are also properly set (so no more individual icon for group assignments)
and the assigned group name is displayed.
The background jobs signatures changed a bit (`assignment_id` is now
needed for the unassign job) so when deploying this patch, it’s expected
to have some jobs failing. That’s why a post-migration has been written
to handle the creation of missing notifications and the deletion of
extra notifications too.
This commit updates the plugin to follow the latest guidelines, as
shown in discourse-plugin-skeleton, removing the explicit require calls
and using config/routes.rb for defining all routes.
This commit updates the plugin to follow the latest guidelines, as
shown in discourse-plugin-skeleton, removing the explicit require calls
and using config/routes.rb for defining all routes.
Adds a new plugin setting that when enabled adds a status field for every assignment. This setting defaults to off.
The possible status for an assignment are customizable via yet another new setting, and the first one on this list will be the default status for new assignments.
The status is not yet show anywhere except the assign modal and the small action posts in topics at the moment. Adding status to the assignment list for users and groups will be handled in the near future.
Co-authored-by: Penar Musaraj <pmusaraj@gmail.com>
When topic is closed, we mark assignments as "inactive". Then when it is reopen and setting reassign_on_open is enabled, we bring back previous assignments.
We were already using custom fields for archive message and move to inbox. I changed custom fields solution to use active flag on Assignment model
Change `topic_id` to polymorphic approach (In the next step we will allow assigning to individual post)
`topic_id` column is still used for efficient display of assigned users on topic list (to avoid scanning posts)
Ability to assign groups.
To assign group, user must have a right to send a message to that group.
In addition, 2 jobs were introduced, - AssignNotification and UnassignNotification to inform interested users in the background about the new assignment.