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Guide

8 years ago

Pass form values to PostPage via URL suffix

Hi there, Is it possible to pass the search bar contents to the subject box when a user clicks a link to post to a forum? Thanks, Lionel

ClaudiusH
8 years ago
There's a related discussion on how to perform passing the parameter using jQuery: https://community.lithium.com/t5/Support-Forum/Pass-form-values-to-PostPage-via-URL-suffix/m-p/299284#M11630

But there is actually a URL parameter as well which works both on the "New Post" as well as the "Choose Node" experience (and it comes free out of the box):

message-subject=<subject>

appended to the query string of each of these URLs allows you pre-populate the subject line, e.g.

https://community.lithium.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/studio?message-subject=New%20test%20subject

or

https://community.lithium.com/t5/forums/postpage/interaction-style/board/choose-node/true/category-id/knowledgeandsupport/board-id/studio?message-subject=New%20support%20question

allows you to have the subject field already filled.

But take the good advice from Wendy_S and really think through the posting user flow:

I know that on the Skype Community this was used for a while on the "Didn't find what you were looking for? Post a new question" flow. If your posting experience can't make it clear that the pre-populated subject line is just a starting point and should be edited by the member, you are likely to end up with many identically named topics. As a result your moderators have to go in and edit the topic titles to keep the board listing relevant.

Guide

Thanks Claudius! The URL parameters are exactly what I was after.

Boss

8 years ago

Thanks Claudius for that extra bit of education :-)

Helpful for me as well.

I guess our use case was a little different then and in order to remove this automated passing of the search term to the post subject, we had PS set this up on the backend and we need Lithium to reverse the change we've once made.

I understand now the passing of the search term to the post page could also be setup out of the box. Not sure why we went the other route then...could it be it wasn't possible OOB up to some point?

Cheers

Wendy