Hi, I’m trying to use a simple html <a> to open a URL like http://mysite.com/new-topic?title=topic%20title&body=topic%20body&category=actions It works for title and body, but I’m not able to set the category via URL. Is it possible? And is it possible to set a tag? I need to do it via a simple …

It should work ok as per here: [image] How to create a new topic link with pre-filled information faq Discourse now supports composing a new (pre-filled) topic via URL! To compose a new pre-filled topic, modify URL params like this: https://discourse.example.com/new-topic…

Create new topic via URL and set tag or category

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) December 5, 2017, 2:56am 5

This has come up before @techAPJ. Bit me personally back in the day. Any reason why we only support name and not slug?

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Create new topic via URL and set tag or category

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