# Feature Request: Required Custom Fields for New Topic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-required-custom-fields-for-new-topic/86432>\
**Category:** Meta Elastic\
**Created:** [May 19, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-required-custom-fields-for-new-topic/86432 "2017-05-19T13:39:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![EddieTurizo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@EddieTurizo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EddieTurizo)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-required-custom-fields-for-new-topic/86432/1 "2017-05-19T13:39:17Z")

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Does the Discourse platform allow Elastic to create custom fields that are required as part of creating a new topic? The initial response to a new topic is usually something along the lines of "What is your Logstash version?", "What is your Beats version?". If custom fields are available in Discourse, they can be made required fields to create a new topic and there would be no need to ask users what version they are running. One less question to ask would translate to more efficiently addressing the issue.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-required-custom-fields-for-new-topic/86432/2 "2017-05-20T22:55:32Z")

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Thanks for raising this, we appreciate any feedback we get on these forums 😃

We can setup "templates" for new threads so that we prompt users to provide this information, so I'll raise an internal task to look at that.

I'm not sure forcing users to include this info is a positive thing, as it may stop people from posting altogether.

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**Author:** ![EddieTurizo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@EddieTurizo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EddieTurizo)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-required-custom-fields-for-new-topic/86432/3 "2017-05-21T02:52:51Z")

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Thanks Mark 😃

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-required-custom-fields-for-new-topic/86432/4 "2017-07-06T13:45:53Z")

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