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Add /dialog action-buttons sample: nested dialogs via action buttons

Adds a demo of the action_button dialog element type, showing that an action button can open another dialog from inside an already-open dialog — a three-level chain (board → triage → timeline note).

  1. Dialog A — Incident Board (getDialogIncidentBoard): a markdown table of active incidents plus one action_button per incident. Each button carries the incident ID in its Context and posts to /dialog/incident/triage.
  2. Dialog B — Incident Triage (getDialogIncidentTriage): status/severity selects, a users-datasource assignee picker, and an Add Timeline Note action button → /dialog/incident/note.
  3. Dialog C — Timeline Note (getDialogTimelineNote): renders the incident's existing timeline and takes a new typed note.

An ⚠️ Escalate (fails) button posts to /dialog/incident/fail, which always returns 500 so the action button's error state can be exercised without opening a child dialog.

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Fixes https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-69220

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Walkthrough

The server adds incident-response dialogs for board review, triage, and timeline notes. The action-buttons command opens the incident board. Callback handlers process dialog actions. Validation tests and dependency updates were added.

Changes

Incident response dialogs

Layer / File(s) Summary
Incident dialog definitions
server/dialog_samples.go, server/dialog_action_buttons_test.go
Incident data, display helpers, board, triage, and timeline-note dialogs were added. Markdown escaping and dialog validation tests were added.
Dialog command entry
server/command_hooks.go
Help text, autocomplete, and command dispatch now support action-buttons.
Dialog callback handling
server/http_hooks.go
Routes and handlers now process board dismissal, triage updates, timeline notes, deliberate failures, and dialog response attachments.

Module updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Go and dependency versions
go.mod
The module now uses Go 1.26.4 and newer indirect dependency versions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 07604

The change can misreport incident assignment state during triage, and its build configuration still uses Go 1.26.4 instead of 1.26.5, missing security fixes. These bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant CommandHooks
  participant DialogEndpoint
  participant DialogHandlers
  User->>CommandHooks: execute action-buttons
  CommandHooks->>DialogEndpoint: open incident board
  User->>DialogEndpoint: submit triage or timeline action
  DialogEndpoint->>DialogHandlers: dispatch incident callback
  DialogHandlers-->>DialogEndpoint: open child dialog or return error
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: adding action buttons for nested dialogs.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the nested dialog workflow, error handling, and linked ticket, and it matches the changeset.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Inline comments:
In `@server/dialog_samples.go`:
- Around line 1188-1194: Update the triage handling for the “owner” selector in
the dialog configuration so submitting without a new assignee preserves the
existing owner rather than clearing it. Ensure the users DataSource selector’s
Default uses the Mattermost user ID, including when the triage value is
unchanged.

In `@server/http_hooks.go`:
- Around line 301-310: Update the timeline_note_ callback handling around
noteMessage so user-supplied note text is escaped for Mattermost Markdown and
mention markers are neutralized before it is passed to fmt.Sprintf and assigned
to Message. Keep the existing note formatting and other fields unchanged.
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@sbishel sbishel changed the title add action buttons for dialogs within dialogs Interactive Dialog - add action buttons for dialogs within dialogs Aug 13, 2026
@sbishel sbishel added the 2: Dev Review Requires review by a core committer label Aug 14, 2026

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3-3: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use Go 1.26.5 in CI and production builds.

The e2e workflow resolves its Go version from go.mod, so it currently uses Go 1.26.4 and misses security fixes in Go 1.26.5. Update all applicable toolchain references or document the exception.

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In `@go.mod` at line 3, Update the go.mod Go version directive from 1.26.4 to
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sbishel requested a review from hanzei August 17, 2026 19:32

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While I'm always pumped to see new features for dialogs, this one seems over-complicated from a UX perspective.

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I't not clear what the actions in the dialog do. This might be more of an UX issue with this particular use case, not the overall design.

The visual UX of the overlaying dialogs looks also quite messy. I wonder if we instead re-use the same dialog and add a back button to the previous one.

I also wonder where the need for this feature comes from. MM Blocks already adds support for triggering dialogs. Should we use MM Blocks and trigger the second layer of dialogs directly?

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@hanzei - Here the request from Midnight 2.
https://hub.mattermost.com/boards/team/cqjeed86epdixrr3mtqgk68yhr/bnkxi9kq143faud61ayrgs6sobw/vtafjspu9iig53nf1o6ci7gjtzo/c4yrxh7dfkbyf5xakgtef7zju6a

It's probably not a great demo...but only designed to show we go up to 3 levels deep for showing dialogs. I would ignore the use case, but I can make it better if desired.

I wonder if we instead re-use the same dialog and add a back button to the previous one.

I don't think that will work for a couple reasone. 1 they want to reuse the dialog for multiple scenarios, and also a back button implies a wizard type use case. They want to display more information and then close.

Regarding MM_Blocks. They have too much invested in the current dialog infrastructure to move everything to the blocks infrastructure. Support for MMBlocks in interactive dialogs is in flight, but not yet releases. This feature is in the v10.10 release. This is only a demonstration of the feature.

Let me know, I can come with a better "demo". Let me know if you have suggestions.

Thanks.

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sbishel requested a review from hanzei August 18, 2026 17:47
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