# Topic Templates **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-templates/18282 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [July 30, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-templates/18282 "2014-07-30T18:55:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![haiku](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/haiku/32/103858_2.png) [@haiku](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haiku) #### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-templates/18282/7 "2014-07-30T23:28:04Z")
It sounds like a generalised version of this feature request: > [@Add UI for editing custom per-topic fields](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handy-custom-fields-editor/17607): > > Heyah, while working on the topic [permalinks plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-topic-permalinks/17606/1), I realised that there is no way for the Administrator to add, configure or edit our new [awesome custom-fields](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecating-hstore-meta-data-fields/14962/3) other than going into the Shell or Database and do it manually. Which makes it a quite hidden feature. I’d propose to build a general-purpose modal-dialog similar to the administration interface listing all existing custom\_fields and allowing them to be edited (and maybe other fields added) by administrators. Here is an example sketc… @cpradio I think you’re missing the intent a bit, this feature is not intended to organise discussion topics, but to standardise how certain kinds of discussions are started. A support forum is a perfectly reasonable scenario for this feature imo, a lot of friction could be avoided by requiring certain info up front. It may not be needed for every community: here on Meta, those requiring support are generally technically competent, a pretty rare thing among support forums (just look at phpBB!). But this will probably change when Discourse goes interstellar 🚀 Also I think the “it’s not been built yet so it can’t be that great” argument is a bit short-sighted, there are plenty of features in discourse that were suggested like this. And of course, 🌈 Discourse Is Rainbows 🌈, right? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-templates/18282)._