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.
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.
Yeah, I have the same need. I can explain my use case, as it’s very simple:
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
team.
Before the match
4 min
After the match