Optimized interface for mass editing topic titles?

[xrav3nz]

@Sujan

a topic view where I can directly edit topic titles with few clicks

AFAIK, I don’t think this exists yet.

@Sujan

read a preview of the post body without opening the actual thread

Not entirely sure if these suit your use case, but Discourse Tooltips and https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/41630/27 are two plugins that do that. They do not limit the view to staff though.

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Alternatively, here’s an approach to guide your user: Topic Templates.

Topic templates for categories and other alternatives

Topic templates are a useful tool to reinforce forum conventions or to guide new users. Category topic templates Some categories might follow a strict pattern. One such example would be a Movies category, wherein you’d like users to start new topics according to a certain template: I saw: insert movie title I think it was worth: how many stars out of 4 stars Review here: To apply this template to all new topics posted in this category, go to a category, click the button and find…

However, it does not support defining a topic title template via the settings. Maybe you could include a title convention on the first line to remind the user, or somehow leverage the “prefill by URL” feature (that supports prefilling topic title)?