Discourse currently has the Category Template feature, which prefills the Composer. It’s useful, but a nice step up from that could be to have the ability to create a custom New Topic form, with custom fields, driven by a YAML definition, like the one exists for GitHub Issues . So something like thi…

There is this already, any help?: [image] Placeholder Forms Theme component discourse2 Summary Placeholder Forms will let you build dynamic documentation, by creating a form that replaces any occurrence of a =PATTERN= in your post with the value from a t…

What about Custom Wizard plugin for this. [image] Custom Wizard Plugin mage Plugin pavilion Summary Forms for Discourse. This plugin lets you make rich and powerful forms for your Discourse forum. Better user onboarding, structured posting, data enrichmen…

In my experience, the Custom Wizard plugin is not a good solution for this use case. You lose the preview, the suggested topics pop-up, and a few other things. Something that replaces the Composer partially while retaining the overall flow and experience would be a better solution here.

New Topic template form, like GitHub Issue templates?

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Falco (Falco) October 16, 2023, 7:11pm 6

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New Topic template form, like GitHub Issue templates?

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