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{{admon/important|DRAFT| This SOPs is currently a work in progress. If you want to edit, update or add to this SOP, feel free to do so!}} | {{admon/important|DRAFT| This SOPs is currently a work in progress. If you want to edit, update or add to this SOP, feel free to do so!}} | ||
You will need a [https://discourse.mozilla-community.org discourse] admin account to complete this SOP. | You will need a [https://discourse.mozilla-community.org discourse] admin account to complete this SOP. | ||
Make sure you have a bug for the category request first. | Make sure you have [https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Community_Ops/Discourse/SOPs/Request_a_Category a bug] for the category request first. | ||
=Setting up email= | |||
Go to admin.google.com and create a new alias for the "Discourse Reply2" user. You should only create an alias for top-level categories. | Go to admin.google.com and create a new alias for the "Discourse Reply2" user. You should only create an alias for top-level categories. | ||
=Creating the category= | |||
Go to the categories page on the Discourse instance and click new category. Enter the category name, select the parent category if applicable, enter a colour (can be random) and then click on the settings tab. If the category is a top-level category, set the custom incoming email address to the one you created in the Google Apps admin page. If the category is a sub-category, set the custom incoming email address to the same one as the parent category, but add the sub-categories slug as the wildcard for the email address. For example, the email in address for the United Kingdom category under the Communities category would be communities+united-kingdom@mozilla-community.org. | * Go to the categories page on the Discourse instance and click new category. | ||
* Enter the category name, select the parent category if applicable, enter a colour (can be random) and then click on the settings tab. | |||
* If the category is a top-level category, set the custom incoming email address to the one you created in the Google Apps admin page. | |||
* If the category is a sub-category, set the custom incoming email address to the same one as the parent category, but add the sub-categories slug as the wildcard for the email address. For example, the email in address for the United Kingdom category under the Communities category would be communities+united-kingdom@mozilla-community.org. | |||
[[Category:DiscourseSOP]] | [[Category:DiscourseSOP]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:03, 26 May 2015
DRAFT
This SOPs is currently a work in progress. If you want to edit, update or add to this SOP, feel free to do so!
This SOPs is currently a work in progress. If you want to edit, update or add to this SOP, feel free to do so!
You will need a discourse admin account to complete this SOP.
Make sure you have a bug for the category request first.
Setting up email
Go to admin.google.com and create a new alias for the "Discourse Reply2" user. You should only create an alias for top-level categories.
Creating the category
- Go to the categories page on the Discourse instance and click new category.
- Enter the category name, select the parent category if applicable, enter a colour (can be random) and then click on the settings tab.
- If the category is a top-level category, set the custom incoming email address to the one you created in the Google Apps admin page.
- If the category is a sub-category, set the custom incoming email address to the same one as the parent category, but add the sub-categories slug as the wildcard for the email address. For example, the email in address for the United Kingdom category under the Communities category would be communities+united-kingdom@mozilla-community.org.