Plugin for adding extra fields to the question form

[verilog15 (verilog)]

Hello,
I manage a Q&A forum where students can post questions and provide answers. I’m looking to enhance the forum by allowing users to specify the exact source of their questions, including the book title, page number, and specific question number. Additionally, I want to introduce a feature that lets users search questions by these parameters. Before attempting to develop a custom plugin for this functionality, I’m interested in finding out if there already exists a solution that can be adapted to add these “extra fields” to our question submission form. Is there an existing plugin that can facilitate this?
Thank you

[ondrej]

@verilog15

specify the exact source of their questions, including the book title, page number, and specific question number

There is a official footnote plugin which is included in core that allows you add add more info.

Discourse Footnote

This plugin is now bundled with Discourse core and is enabled by default. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Summary Discourse Footnote allows users to create markdown footnotes in posts. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-footnote Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Enabling Footnote The Footnote plugin is default enabled but can be disabled/enabled from the admin/plugins …

Example: “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” ^[1]

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1. Carl Sagan ↩︎

[verilog15 (verilog)]

Thank you for the answer!
As I understand the footnote plugin allows you to add a reference to sources, similarly how wiki works. My request is a bit different - when you open a new topic in the Q&A forum, apart from the title, it will also ask you for the book name (maybe dropdown of supported books), the question number and the page number (if the question is not from a book, it’s possible to mark as “not from book”).

If there is no such plugin, maybe there is some plugin that added custom extra topic fields that I can take a look into their source code?

[Moin]

Maybe a form template could help to structure the input

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Or you use the Custom Wizard Plugin 🧙