Hi, this feature (opening composer to compose a new personal message/topic via URL is very useful: [image] Creating pre-filled personal message links Using Discourse bookmark This guide describes how to create a link to start a new personal message with pre-fi…

I don’t think this is possible at the moment. Can you explain more about the use case here?

We are using PMs for projects on a site, and each project gets its own message topic. The head-scratcher is how a person can post a message to the topic with content from the project. So really would like a button on the site to post content to message topic, essentially. But then continue compo…

Got it. Discourse design is mostly around each project of yours existing as a category, subcategory or tag. That way you don’t end with lots of The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace? , and information is better organized. If you are locked into this long PM design, you will probably need a t…

Good reply, thanks. By theme component, do you mean a plugin type development project? We investigated using categories/subcategories using an auto-create routine, however found that the number of projects we tested meant categories got beyond what Discourse could handle (think it started to cause…

Open composer for existing topic/personal message via URL

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 1, 2019, 5:59pm 2

Probably. See Reverse engineer the Discourse API.

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