Question

I'm writing a plugin that uses the IPluginDiscussTopicDisplay interface to insert some information into the discussion topic posts.

Using code similar to this puts adds the specified text below the original text in the post.

public string DiscussTopicDisplayPostView(CDiscussTopic topic)
{
    return "Test string<br />"
}

Example Output:

This is the original message text
Test string

Is there any way to make it display "Test string" in my example above the original message text, or better yet, suppress the original text completely so I can implement features that modify the original text (for example markup, or a Clbuttic implementation)?

I'm sure I could do this with some client side scripting, but it sure would be cleaner to just do it server-side.

Answer 1

You're right, now you'd have to do it with javascript. It sounds like what you need is the opportunity to intercept the rendering of the post text and transform it, and I have created a bug to add that to the API. Thanks, John!