Create questions for another user

[gilliardmacedo]

Hello everyone. This is my first issue in this project.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

We use a cloud-hosted Answer instance. It's common that some possible users do not even know the app and use another channel to ask something, like an issue in a project, for example, or just think something is a bug while it's not. We need a quick way to do a soft move, without forcing the user to rewrite everything.

Describe the solution you'd like

I think best experience for user would be having an admin endpoint to create the question as another user. So we can use it in workflows. It's already possible to have a user to create the question using the API, but it should be the asking user because he'll choose the right answer.

Describe alternatives you've considered

A simpler feature may be fill the new question form with query parameters, like "http://my-instance/questions/ask?title=Test%20Title&description=My%20%test%description&tags=mytag1,mytag2. This is a good feature in GitLab and GitHub while opening issues.

I can work in the solution if needed.

[LinkinStars]

A simpler feature may be fill the new question form with query parameters, like "http://my-instance/questions/ask?title=Test%20Title&description=My%20%test%description&tags=mytag1,mytag2. This is a good feature in GitLab and GitHub while opening issues.

For this part, you can try to use the pre-fill feature. The URL such like 'https://meta.answer.dev/questions/ask?prefill=---%0Atitle%3A%20How%20to%20deploy%20Apache%20Answer%0Atags%3A%20discussion%0A---%0AHow%20to%20deploy%20Apache%20Answer%3F'

FYI:

• Support for pre-fill forms on the ask page #1009
• https://answer.apache.org/blog/2024/08/15/answer-1.3.6-release#pre-fill-forms-focus-on-the-content-leave-the-rest

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Regarding the API part, we have provided documentation of the API. https://answer.apache.org/docs/api