This product supplies the New Topic page for GroupServer, as well as the JSON list of topics that is used to provide the autocomplete JavaScript for the page.

The New Topic page is closely modelled on the Add a reply form on the Topic page [1]. Its primary difference is the Topic field, which allows the participant to set the subject line. To encourage participants to add to topics, rather than start new ones, the Typeahead plugin to suggest existing topic-titles, rather than new ones. The autocomplete code is supplied with data by the JSON page, also provided by this product.

The page topics.json supplies the list of 255 most recent topics ordered by the date of the most recent post, in JSON format. This is used to provide the data for the Typeahead JavaScript.

The resource /++resource++gs-group-messages-startopic-20130308.js provides the JavaScript for the page. It creates a Bootstrap Typeahead widget after the page loads. It then request topics.json using AJAX once the user starts typing in the Topic field.

• Code repository: https://github.com/groupserver/gs.group.messages.topic.start
• Translation: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/gs-group-messages-topic-start/
• Questions and comments to http://groupserver.org/groups/development
• Report bugs at https://redmine.iopen.net/projects/groupserver