Pre-filled topics don't recognize subcategories anymore

[chipet92s (Raúl Alfonsín)]

Hi, I recently updated my Discourse installation ( v2.3.0.beta11 +100 ) and noticed that if a pre-filled topic has just a category it works fine, but if it also has a subcategory it shows “Uncategorized” instead. You can see this happening on the first example here:

Create a link to start a new topic with pre-filled information

Discourse now supports composing a new (pre-filled) topic via URL! To compose a new pre-filled topic, modify URL params like this: https://discourse.example.com/new-topic?title=topic%20title&body=topic%20body&category=category/subcategory&tags=email,planned This will open composer window pre filled with topic title, body, category and tags. Breaking down the link / URL to show the available options, we have: the base URL / link: https://discourse.example.com/new-topic the ? URL operator to…

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

Fixed via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/48b9e0d7497ce0c5435416a1e07ad40e35307eed

Thanks for reporting this issue @chipet92s