# Shared Drafts: Allow staff to collaborate on posts before publishing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-allow-staff-to-collaborate-on-posts-before-publishing/83493>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** new-feature, shared-drafts\
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-allow-staff-to-collaborate-on-posts-before-publishing/83493 "2018-03-21T16:51:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![putty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/putty/32/370902_2.png) [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-allow-staff-to-collaborate-on-posts-before-publishing/83493/45 "2025-01-30T16:40:50Z")

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Is there a way to have the shared draft as the default instead of a creating a new topic?

 ![CleanShot 2025-01-30 at 11.37.41](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/9/5/e9547e97cba5623b455e6b20df82c8d83e501f63.png)

We have this category set as the shared draft category, but if the user accidentally create a standard topic instead of the draft, these don’t appear:

 ![CleanShot 2025-01-30 at 11.40.16](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/3/3/833e1c980d3f650c7013d8067efdbbde1e2a2e37.png)

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