# Topic-specific reply template
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-specific-reply-template/75363
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 4, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-specific-reply-template/75363 "2017-12-04T19:29:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@burke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/burke)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-specific-reply-template/75363/21 "2020-05-06T15:22:05Z")
Thanks @downey. You’re correct. The use case is for a topic calling for consistent (templated) responses that doesn’t itself merit a new category and doesn’t rely on respondents to manually select the template.
I realize this is an edge case, but after running into it a few times, I thought I’d make the feature request. Perhaps if a few other Discourse users find themselves wishing they could provide an ad-hoc template for a specific topic and find their way here, there will be more use cases for the feature. In the meantime, we’ll continue to use the workaround: asking people to provide specific details in their responses within the original post and hope they read it. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-specific-reply-template/75363/22 "2024-02-02T17:55:53Z")
I found myself in the same place. The AIbot sent me to the wrong thread, but then I found this one.
The use case is pretty simple, I think. Anytime someone might want to have a category-wide setting that starts off every post with a template, except instead of it being a persistent category thing, it’s a prompt for the community on a specific issue.
Fingers crossed
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### Author:  [@ErlendMS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ErlendMS)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-specific-reply-template/75363/23 "2024-02-03T09:38:16Z")
Yeah, I have the same need. **I can explain my use case, as it’s very simple:**
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I’ve started a Discourse forum for a small Norwegian football ⚽ team.
One of the **categories** is for match threads, where I post a **subject** for every match. When I do this, the current functionality, of having a template for use with **new subjects** , is very helpful for creating these match threads. 👍🏻
But I want users **replies** to the **match thread _subjects_** to be pre-filled with something like:
> Delete this sentence + the things below that don’t apply, so people can see when you wrote.
> ⏳ _Before the match_
> ⏱ _ **4** min_
> ⌛ _After the match_
And I don’t see a way to do that now, and not with the [discourse-reply-template-component](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-reply-template-component) either.
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