# /new-topic route missing features

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-route-missing-features/172871
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-route-missing-features/172871 "2020-12-10T14:42:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![renato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renato/32/383632_2.png) [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-route-missing-features/172871/1 "2020-12-10T14:42:53Z")

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Hi,

I think this is a bug: when using the `/new-topic` route, I’ve found two issues:

- the `tags` parameter doesn’t work on mobile, the tag field is empty
- if `category_id` is set but `body` is not, the category template isn’t used by default

I can reproduce both with this URL: [https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?tags=email&category\_id=14](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?tags=email&category_id=14).

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-route-missing-features/172871/7 "2020-12-14T22:12:30Z")

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Thanks for the report! This is something that was missed back when mobile gained a UI for tags.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11486](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11486)

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-route-missing-features/172871/8 "2020-12-15T19:43:15Z")

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