Relaxed restrictions:
- Automation posts are not validated for similarity. This was causing
error when PMs were created by regular user with same content and sent
to different users.
- Don't create warning logs when PM target does not exist anymore. When
for example spammer was deleted, delayed PM is not sent, but it is
correct behaviour;
- Allow tags to be applied even if an automation user is not allowed to
tag;
- Restricted category tags should be visible in configuration UI. Still,
they will be applied only when specific topic belongs to correct
category.
Create a topic can fail in many different ways and we don't want this to impact the rest of the application, the call will now be wrapped in a begin/rescue block and log an error if it fails.
The automation plugin has 4 custom field types that are array typed. However, array typed custom fields are deprecated and should be migrated to JSON type.
This commit does a couple of things:
1. Migrate all four custom fields to JSON
2. Fix a couple of small bugs that have been discovered while migrating the custom fields to JSON (see the comments on this commit's PR for details https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/26939)
This commit adds a new automation script for creating topics. It's very similar to the existing 'create a post' automation, except that it posts new topics in a specific category and with optional tags.
Internal topic: t/125829.
