Is it possible to customize the “Welcome” message on the right of the dialog that you see when you create a new Topic so that the text changes based on what category (or possibly tag) someone selects with their post? For example: if someone selects “Mobile” as a category, could I customize the text …

No you can’t that way, because wellcome is same to everyone everywhere. But could this help: [image] Discourse Templates plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Templates allows the creation of content templates for repeated use. The templates are stored as topics in a speci…

I’m not sure that Discourse Templates would help here as it requires a user to actively select a pre-existing template whereas I understand what is needed here is to provide immediate feedback to the user once a category is chosen for their new topic. To conditionally replace the text that shows up…

Yes, I was looking to provide immediate feedback to the user once they select a category for their new topic. I’ll look into the Topic Templates and see what we can do with them. Thanks a lot!

Can I customize the welcome message shown when creating a new topic based on the chosen tag or category?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 7, 2022, 8:25pm 2

You can Customize all text in Discourse.

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Can I customize the welcome message shown when creating a new topic based on the chosen tag or category?

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