# Category not preselected in composer when creating topic with shortcut key 'c'
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-not-preselected-in-composer-when-creating-topic-with-shortcut-key-c/106036
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 8:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-not-preselected-in-composer-when-creating-topic-with-shortcut-key-c/106036 "2019-01-09T08:47:08Z")
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 8:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-not-preselected-in-composer-when-creating-topic-with-shortcut-key-c/106036/1 "2019-01-09T08:47:08Z")
I just verified on two Discourse instances that Topic Templates work only when you click the ‘New Topic’ button, but not when you hit the `c` key.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-not-preselected-in-composer-when-creating-topic-with-shortcut-key-c/106036/2 "2019-01-09T12:04:57Z")
I recall this being a bug earlier in the lifecycle of Discourse.
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-not-preselected-in-composer-when-creating-topic-with-shortcut-key-c/106036/3 "2019-01-09T12:06:42Z")
I’m not on the latest build (out of fear of the image rebaking option), and our company’s blog is also older. These are the versions that I observed this on:
- 2.2.0.beta6 - version 0884cd218d30d365aa3e8c5f0071e9341ecf9360
- 2.0.0.beta1 - version d2025e33cfa1efe23328222fccee9e8f83986a64
Hope that helps.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-not-preselected-in-composer-when-creating-topic-with-shortcut-key-c/106036/4 "2019-01-09T15:59:20Z")
I just tested this on try. Here’s what I found:
- I added a topic template to the `discourse` category.
- I navigated to the discourse category [https://try.discourse.org/c/discourse](https://try.discourse.org/c/discourse).
- I clicked the “New Topic” button.
- The composer opened with the discourse cateogry pre-selected. As such, the topic template was displayed.
- I closed the composer.
- I then clicked c on my keyboard.
- The composer opened without any category pre-selected. As such, no topic template was displayed.
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From what I can tell the issue is not about topic templates, but that the keyboard shortcut does not open the composer to the correct category.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-not-preselected-in-composer-when-creating-topic-with-shortcut-key-c/106036/6 "2019-01-24T18:22:16Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a518950e524d482bec0b1201276450f7aaa8725a](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a518950e524d482bec0b1201276450f7aaa8725a)
This should fix it up!
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-not-preselected-in-composer-when-creating-topic-with-shortcut-key-c/106036/7 "2019-01-24T18:22:21Z")