Id like to create templates which have required fields, ideally these would be via dropdown selection boxes. For example, if a field required the user to list their favourite animal they could choose from a box containing: “Dog, Cat, or Gargoyle”, I’d really like to provide options rather than have…

If you use tags you won’t have to write a plugin that will be likely to break every time templates change upstream. I recommend that you spend an hour or so trying that before starting to write a plugin. You can have a look at discourse-topic-previews-sidecar/plugin.rb at master · merefield/discour…

[image] xceph: I’d really like to provide options rather than have free form entry. Is this or anything similar possible? Discourse is, at heart, a free form discussion software. If what you really need is a strict form, you may have better results using a more appropriate software. You coul…

Thanks, I think my wording was bad, still want free form discussion but certain things are required to initiate that. I think using the tags and templates will be enough to make it work😀

Can topic templates have javascript?

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Falco (Falco) October 16, 2023, 7:22pm 5

This is now possible thanks to Introducing Experimental Form Templates

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Can topic templates have javascript?

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