# Add "New Topic" button in full page search view
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [26 Luglio 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441 "2015-07-26T12:49:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [26 Luglio 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441/1 "2015-07-26T12:49:11Z")
I hypothesise that when a user makes a search, especially when drilled down into a specific category, the user wants quick access to the “New Topic” button, in case the search does not return the desired results.
This just happened to me when I was checking to see if a bug I wanted to report already existed. When my search turned out to be fruitless, the next natural step was to make a new topic, but in order to do that I had to jump back to the index page, click “New Topic” and select the Bugs category.
Mockup:
If you’re drilled down into a specific category, the category selector should default to that category.
Probably a good pull-request candidate?
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### Author:  [@anon82356247](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon82356247)
#### Post date: [25 Agosto 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441/2 "2015-08-25T18:17:04Z")
If you are going to do this, how about making it site wide?
see: [Add + New Topic link to all pages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-link-to-all-pages/32446)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [25 Agosto 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441/3 "2015-08-25T18:31:27Z")
There’s definitely some merit to a sitewide New Topic button, but it requires far more radical UX changes (especially on mobile) than what’s being proposed here, which is about working with what we’ve already got.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [25 Agosto 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441/4 "2015-08-25T21:36:11Z")
I definitely support adding a new topic button in search results, the logic is sound, cc @sam I think this should make it into 1.4.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6 Febbraio 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441/5 "2016-02-06T21:51:14Z")
@techapj can you add this to your list?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [7 Febbraio 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441/6 "2016-02-07T20:25:06Z")
Sent a PR for this:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4001](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4001)
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> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> If you’re drilled down into a specific category, the category selector should default to that category.
Okay, what I did is: When user searches for `topic category:bug` and clicks on “New Topic” then composer will open up with “bug” category pre-selected.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [8 Febbraio 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-topic-button-in-full-page-search-view/31441/7 "2016-02-08T11:42:13Z")