I think a quick win here would be:

• Don't select any community or channel by default, leave those empty and grey out the publish button until both are selected
• Move the selects down next to the publish button
• Only on the community view and channel views select a community and channel by default

Hi If allowed I would like to take this up as my first issue. I am assuming the thread composer is the New Conversion UI wherein "To:" field will remain empty and near Publish button down at bottom we will have two new selects for community and channel right? Sorry for my usage of non-technical terms but I am trying to relate components to UI. Any guidance/help would be great.

Yep that's it @bishwenduk029!

@bishwenduk029

I am assuming the thread composer is the New Conversion UI wherein "To:" field will remain empty

we don't need to show "To:" also, put some title like "New Conversation" what do you say @mxstbr

If you need any help, i can (though i also new)

Yep! This will also affect some layout stuff on mobile, but we'll probably want to at least match behavior where the community/channel selection requires the user to make the decision before hitting publish :)

Great then, thanks @mxstbr, @dev-drprasad and @brianlovin, I will start working on this and come up with a solution ASAP

Hey @dev-drprasad I was working on this issue. I was able to make changes, but the onChange event is not firing on select....have you come across such an issue before ? RequiredSelector in ComposerWithData....I tried but was unable to post this question on Spectrum.Chat so posting here ....

@bishwenduk029 since we are moving RequiredSelector to other position in same component onChange should work. can you check browser console for any errors ??

In local/dev env I think there is some issue with select, onChange event is not being fired even with alpha branch code. Has anyone faced a similar problem, or am i doing something wrong ? Should I create a pull request for review? I have completed the changes but unable to test them because of select...

@bishwenduk029 please send PR, so that I can take a look

@bishwenduk029 if you have only spectrum community in you local development, you can't trigger onChange because there is no other community to change. try creating one more community in local development. same goes for channels also

Oh I see, sure thing I will try that thnx @dev-drprasad .

Hi @dev-drprasad I have created a pull request for the preliminary changes and was hoping if you could review it and let me know if I am going in the right path, meanwhile I will look perform some analysis to find if any component may need change, also I think I have to modify the cypress scripts.

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