new Category.is_support attribute

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/models/category-list.js.es6

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ CategoryList.reopenClass({
     const users = Discourse.Model.extractByKey(result.featured_users, Discourse.User);
     const list = Discourse.Category.list();
 
-    result.category_list.categories.forEach(function(c) {
+    result.category_list.categories.forEach(c => {
       if (c.parent_category_id) {
         c.parentCategory = list.findBy('id', c.parent_category_id);
       }

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/models/category.js.es6

@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ const Category = RestModel.extend({
         custom_fields: this.get('custom_fields'),
         topic_template: this.get('topic_template'),
         suppress_from_homepage: this.get('suppress_from_homepage'),
+        is_support: this.get("is_support"),
       },
       type: this.get('id') ? 'PUT' : 'POST'
     });

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/edit-category-settings.hbs

@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
 </section>
 
 {{#if emailInEnabled}}
+  <section class='field'>
+    <label>
+      {{input type="checkbox" checked=category.is_support}}
+      {{i18n 'category.email_in_allow_strangers'}}
+    </label>
+  </section>
   <section class='field'>
     <label>
       {{input type="checkbox" checked=category.email_in_allow_strangers}}

app/controllers/categories_controller.rb

@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ class CategoriesController < ApplicationController
                         :position,
                         :email_in,
                         :email_in_allow_strangers,
+                        :is_support,
                         :suppress_from_homepage,
                         :parent_category_id,
                         :auto_close_hours,

app/serializers/category_serializer.rb

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ class CategorySerializer < BasicCategorySerializer
              :position,
              :email_in,
              :email_in_allow_strangers,
+             :is_support,
              :suppress_from_homepage,
              :can_delete,
              :cannot_delete_reason,

config/locales/client.en.yml

@@ -1590,6 +1590,7 @@ en:
       email_in_allow_strangers: "Accept emails from anonymous users with no accounts"
       email_in_disabled: "Posting new topics via email is disabled in the Site Settings. To enable posting new topics via email, "
       email_in_disabled_click: 'enable the "email in" setting.'
+      is_support: "Transform this category into a private support portal."
       suppress_from_homepage: "Suppress this category from the homepage."
       allow_badges_label: "Allow badges to be awarded in this category"
       edit_permissions: "Edit Permissions"

db/migrate/20151124172631_add_is_support_to_categories.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+class AddIsSupportToCategories < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    add_column :categories, :is_support, :boolean, default: false, null: false
+  end
+end