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Question Auto fill in new topic subject with URL
11 years 8 months ago #1
by mik0392
Auto fill in new topic subject with URL was created by mik0392
Hey there,
I was wondering if there's a way to redirect someone to a new topic page, and have extra parameters in the URL to auto fill in the Subject field?
Any help on this is much appreciated, thank you!
I was wondering if there's a way to redirect someone to a new topic page, and have extra parameters in the URL to auto fill in the Subject field?
Any help on this is much appreciated, thank you!
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11 years 8 months ago #2
by sozzled
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Replied by sozzled on topic Re: Auto fill in new topic subject with URL
"Auto fill in the Subject field" ... with what? Based on what? Why?
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11 years 8 months ago #3
by mik0392
For example,
I would have "buttons" on the home page, that would have a link like:
index.php?option=com_kunena&view=post&catid=4&do=new&subject=[Support]
or
index.php?option=com_kunena&view=post&catid=4&do=new&subject=[Bug]
if you know what I mean?
Just something small that I like to keep things looking nice.
Replied by mik0392 on topic Re: Auto fill in new topic subject with URL
sozzled wrote: "Auto fill in the Subject field" ... with what? Based on what? Why?
For example,
I would have "buttons" on the home page, that would have a link like:
index.php?option=com_kunena&view=post&catid=4&do=new&subject=[Support]
or
index.php?option=com_kunena&view=post&catid=4&do=new&subject=[Bug]
if you know what I mean?
Just something small that I like to keep things looking nice.
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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #4
by sozzled
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Replied by sozzled on topic Re: Auto fill in new topic subject with URL
Perhaps, anywhere from six minutes to six months (or longer) someone may be able to provide you with a free-of-charge feature that will do that. What you've asked for, while I can see could be desirable, is not simple thing to do but, yes, it's quite achievable. I can see that something like this could be done with Javascript (create a popup and feed the radio-button response back into the Subject text field).
It's also just as easy to ask your users to create topics with a more "structured" kind of format ... by hand, themselves.
However, creating separate URL links, on the basis of a radio-button selection, is puzzling to me. What do you expect to happen as the result of resolving the targets of these links:
No matter how you do it, though, if you make things too "easy" for your users, they won't think for themselves at all. Interesting idea but I think there will be problems with the execution of it. Just my few cents' worth. Good luck.
It's also just as easy to ask your users to create topics with a more "structured" kind of format ... by hand, themselves.
However, creating separate URL links, on the basis of a radio-button selection, is puzzling to me. What do you expect to happen as the result of resolving the targets of these links:
- index.php?option=com_kunena&view=post&catid=4&do=new&subject=[Support]
- index.php?option=com_kunena&view=post&catid=4&do=new&subject=[Bug]
No matter how you do it, though, if you make things too "easy" for your users, they won't think for themselves at all. Interesting idea but I think there will be problems with the execution of it. Just my few cents' worth. Good luck.
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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #5
by sozzled
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Replied by sozzled on topic Re: Auto fill in new topic subject with URL
There is another way you could achieve a similar result. If I understand your question, you want your users to better "categorise" their questions into, say, "bugs" and "support".
If you setup separate categories for each of these things and then create menu items to direct your users to a specific category, then the [xxxx] part of the subject is redundant. Anything in the "bugs" category is obviously something that would imply "[Bug]" in the subject, woudn't it? Just like we have here, at this forum, separate categories for different things, adding that extra information in the subject is unnecessary, isn't it? If something is posted in the K 1.6 and K 1.7 Support category, the implication is that it's something to do with support for K 1.6 and/or K 1.7. Does that make sense to you?
If you setup separate categories for each of these things and then create menu items to direct your users to a specific category, then the [xxxx] part of the subject is redundant. Anything in the "bugs" category is obviously something that would imply "[Bug]" in the subject, woudn't it? Just like we have here, at this forum, separate categories for different things, adding that extra information in the subject is unnecessary, isn't it? If something is posted in the K 1.6 and K 1.7 Support category, the implication is that it's something to do with support for K 1.6 and/or K 1.7. Does that make sense to you?
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