Starting creating a new private message via link?

[Joey_Tuan]

Since this feature was already created for creating a new post, I was wondering if it could be replicated for creating a new private message?

https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-creating-a-new-topic-via-link/13848/12

Use case: on our rails app, we’re using discourse as the main private-messaging tool. On our user profiles there, we’d like to have a “send message” button that allows you to message that user on discourse.

[OnceWas (Christopher Heald)]

We developed a plugin that does this.

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

See:

Create a link to start a new personal message with pre-filled information

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