URL to set up new topic and category, tags

[EGreg (Greg Magarshak)]

I have discovered that we can use Discourse inside an iframe. In this mode, I hide the header etc.

Now I would like to make it a full replacement for our chat / discussion system. Anywhere we have a chat, we can have a discourse topic!

But in order for this to work, I need to be able to direct users in the iframe to a URL that sets up a topic composer and prefills the topic and category. Is that possible to do?

Afterwards, I also would need to get the resulting topic id and URL in the callback, so I can save it on our side and open it next time in the iframe, instead of our own chat that would be opened.

I guess, thinking about it, I can just use PostMessage and Javascript inside Discourse and our own app for all this. Right?

I could have the Javascript simulate clicks and fill elements that have well known IDs or classes, but I would prefer to use some documented Javascript API

Can someone please give me some example code that uses Ember.js that would accomplish the above?

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

@EGreg

I need to be able to direct users in the iframe to a URL that sets up a topic composer and prefills the topic and category.

We do support topic creation with prefilled data using URL parameters, hopefully this helps:

Create a link to start a new topic with pre-filled information

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

We generally do not support using Discourse in an iFrame, so it may be difficult to find support here on Meta related to your setup.