# Opening a pre-filled message form no longer works
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [6 mei 2018 om 19:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889 "2018-05-06T19:23:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [6 mei 2018 om 19:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889/1 "2018-05-06T19:23:27Z")
The magic URLs for creating a pre-filled message don’t work anymore. This is a recent regression.
For example, clicking [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?group_name=team) should open a message to [@team](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/team) (or at least show an error if that’s not possible), but for me, it currently does nothing besides redirecting to `/lastest`.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6 mei 2018 om 21:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889/2 "2018-05-06T21:14:04Z")
Hmm, did we regress here again @sam? This has regressed multiple times now.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [7 mei 2018 om 04:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889/3 "2018-05-07T04:53:38Z")
> [@fefrei](#):
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> clicking [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?group_name=team)
As per: [Creating pre-filled personal message links - #2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compose-a-new-pre-filled-personal-message-via-url/35984/2)
The correct URL is: [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?groupname=team)
.. and it works as expected.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [7 mei 2018 om 04:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889/4 "2018-05-07T04:58:28Z")
Uh, weird. I can confirm this works, but unless I’m seriously hallucinating 🤪, `group_name` also worked before the last beta update. (I had inserted such a URL into a newsletter-like email I sent out, and I always check these links to make sure they work.)
Anyway, thanks for correcting me 🙂
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [7 mei 2018 om 04:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889/5 "2018-05-07T04:59:30Z")
> [@fefrei](#):
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> `group_name` also worked before the last beta update.
Okay, added on my list to look into this.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [28 mei 2018 om 08:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889/6 "2018-05-28T08:00:39Z")
I don’t think we ever supported `group_name` parameter as there is no source code trace for it but I added support for it regardless. Now we support both `groupname` and `group_name` parameter, if both are present the priority will be given to `groupname`.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [22 november 2020 om 10:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889/18 "2020-11-22T10:56:02Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [22 november 2020 om 21:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-pre-filled-message-form-no-longer-works/86889/19 "2020-11-22T21:24:33Z")