Suggestions
Advanced module to manage suggestions on your guild.
Suggestions
Advanced module to manage suggestions on your guild
This module is open-source.
This module is storing data in your bot's database.
This module creates 2 top-level Slash-Commands on your server.
This module has one configuration file.
This module is being actively used on over 2.9K other servers on SCNX.
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Features
- Let your users submit suggestions on Discord using
- commands
- messages in a designated channel (optional)
- Approve / Deny suggestions from users
- Let users vote for suggestions using reactions
- Automatically open threads below new suggestions (optional)
Setup
- Create (or designate) a channel for suggestions. The bot needs the following permissions on this channel: "View channel", "Send messages" and "View message history"
- Make sure that the permissions
/manage-suggestionsare configured correctly to avoid users managing suggestions as admins. - Open the Module configuration.
- Configure the module.
- Reload the configuration to apply changes.
Usage
- Users can submit a new suggestion with
/suggestion. New suggestions get sent in the configured Suggestion-Channel. - If enabled, messages sent in the Suggestion-Channel will be converted into suggestions automatically.
- Other users can vote with configured reactions and can comment on suggestion using threads.
- Admins can deny or approve suggestions with
/manage-suggestionsand optionally add a reason for their decision. This will notify the suggestion creator via DMs, if configured.
Commands
Understand the documentation
In these docs,
name:<Type> is an option of a slash-command with name name and the type Type. Options that not required, are described as [name:<Type>]. If the action of a command is vastly different between required and not-required options, we might list them separately.Examples
/moderate ban user:<Member>: This command (/moderate ban) has an required option with the name "user" that only accepts one member as a value./moderate ban victim:<Member> reason:<Text>: This command (/moderate ban) has an required option with the name "victim" that only accepts one member as a value and another required option with the name "reason" that accepts any text as an value./moderate ban victim:<Member> reason:<Text> [proof:<Attachment>]: This command (/moderate ban) has an required option with the name "victim" that only accepts one member as a value, another required option with the name "reason" that accepts any text as an value and a not-required option with the name "proof" which allows one attachment as its value.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/suggestion suggestion:<Text> | Allows users to submit a new suggestion into the suggestion-channel. |
/manage-suggestion accept id:<SuggestionID> comment:<Text> | Allows admins to accept a suggestion submitted by a user. The comment will be displayed in the updated suggestion message. |
/manage-suggestion deny id:<SuggestionID> comment:<Text> | Allows admins to deny a suggestion submitted by a user. The comment will be displayed in the updated suggestion message. |
Configuration
This configuration file allows you to configure features of the module and to change the appearance of messages. Open it in your dashboard.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Suggestion-Channel | Channel in which new suggestions get posted and (if "Create suggestions from messages in channel" is enabled) suggestions will be created from. |
| Create suggestions from messages in channel | If enabled, messages sent by users in the Suggestion-Channel will be converted to a suggestion automatically. |
| Reactions | The bot will add these reactions below suggestions. You could these reactions as voting (e.g. with 👍 and 👎). Please enter either the Unicode-Version (for built-in-emojis) or the Emoji-ID (for custom emojis). |
| User-Comments in threads | If enabled, the bot will create a new thread under each suggestion to allow users to comment. Commenting via commands has been removed. |
| Thread-Name | Only visible if "User-Comments in threads" is enabled This will be the name of the thread created below suggestions. |
| "Successfully submitted"-Message | This is the message shown to users after they have submitted their suggestion using the /suggestion command. |
| Notification-Role | This role will be pinged every time a new suggestion is created. |
| Send DM-Notifications | If enabled, the creator of the thread will be sent a DM when their suggestion was answered by an administrator. |
| DM-Status-Notification | Only visible if "Send DM-Notifications" is enabled This is the message that will get sent to the creator of the thread when their suggestion was answered by an administrator. |
| Unanswered Suggestion-Message | This is how a suggestion without an admin-answer will look in the suggestion-channel. This will be edited when an admin responds. |
| Denied Suggestion-Message | This is how a suggestion that has been denied by an admin will look like. The original message ("unanswered suggestion-message") will be edited to this value when an admin denies the suggestion. |
| Approved Suggestion-Message | This is how a suggestion that has been accepted by an admin will look like. The original message ("unanswered suggestion-message") will be edited to this value when an admin approves the suggestion. |
Troubleshooting
A suggestion is not being created
Please check the following:
- Make sure the "Unanswered Suggestion-Message", "Denied Suggestion-Message" and "Approved Suggestion-Message" fields are correctly configured.
- Make sure the bot has the required permissions on the suggestion channel: "View channel", "Send messages" and "View message history".
- Make sure the configured Ping-Roles are correct (or the field is empty).
- Make sure the Thread-Name is shorter than 100 characters.
- Make sure that reactions are in the proper Unicode-Format (if you are using a built-in-emoji) or the Discord-Emoji-Format (for custom emojis).
- If you are using the "Create suggestions from messages in channel" feature, please make sure the bot has permissions to "Manage messages".
I can't respond to a suggestion as an admin
Please check the following:
- Make sure the "Denied Suggestion-Message" and "Approved Suggestion-Message" fields are correctly configured.
- Make sure the bot has the required permissions on the suggestion channel: "View channel", "Send messages" and "View message history".
- Make sure that the suggestion hasn't been answered by an admin yet. If you didn't set up the permissions for
/manage-suggestion, a user might have been able to respond to the suggestion as an admin.
Stored data
The following data is being stored about every suggestion created via commands or by sending a message in the configured channel (if enabled):
- An unique integer identifying the database entry
- The content of the suggestion (
suggestionparameter of the/suggestioncommand or the content of the message sent) - The ID of the message sent by the bot in the configured channel
- ID of the user who submitted the suggestion
- The answer of the admin, consisting of the following:
- Type of answer (
denyorapprove) - Reason for this answer (
commentparameter of the/manage-suggestioncommand) - ID of the admin
- Type of answer (
- For suggestions created in a version below v3.4.6: All comments submitted via commands, consisting of the following:
- Content of the comment
- ID of the user who added the comment
- Metadata about the entry (date when created and last updated)
There is no way to remove a suggestion from the database (you can always delete the suggestion-message regardless). To remove all suggestions, purge the module database.