Link that pre-populates the composer?

[balthatrix (Jeron Paraiso)]

Hi,
I looked for a topic that requests the following and found this one, but I’m thinking there’s much more overhead with that.

What I want is to be able to link to our discourse forum site with parameters that will open up to a particular topic category, with the ‘Create a new Topic’ overlay pulled up, populated with some text.

EDIT: nevermind the ‘to a particular topic category’ portion of my request, as I see there is a route/slug that does that.

Is this possible?

[balthatrix (Jeron Paraiso)]

bumping this topic…

I see that a couple admins edited this post title, which is cool. Any advice or words on whether this can be done at the moment?

-Jeron

[DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor)]

This is now a duplicate another feature request which has been completed…

You can now prefill the subject / title and body content in the composer along with selecting a category via a link see:

Create a link to start a new topic with pre-filled information

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?title=topic%20title&body=topic%20body&category=category/subcategory&tags=email,planned This will open composer window pre filled with topic title, body, category and tags. Breaking down the link / URL to show the available options, we have: the base URL / link: https://discourse.example.com/new-topic the ? URL operator to…