About YAML syntax for discussion category forms
You can create custom discussion category forms by adding a YAML form definition file to the /.github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/ folder in your repository. If you're new to YAML and want to learn more, see "Learn YAML in Y minutes."
The name must correspond with the slug for one of your discussion categories. For example, the template for the "Announcements" category should be .github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/announcements.yml.
For each field, you can define the input type, validation, and a default label.
When a community member fills out a discussion form, their responses for each input are converted to markdown and added to the body of a discussion. Community members can edit their discussions that were created with a discussion form and other people can interact with the discussion like a discussion created through other methods.
This example YAML configuration file defines a general discussion category form.
title: "[General] "
labels: ["General Introduction"]
body:
- type: markdown
attributes:
value: |
This is text that will show up in the template!
- type: textarea
id: improvements
attributes:
label: Top 3 improvements
description: "What are the top 3 improvements we could make to this project?"
value: |
1.
2.
3.
...
render: bash
validations:
required: true
- type: markdown
attributes:
value: |
## Markdown header
And some more markdown
- type: input
id: has-id
attributes:
label: Suggestions
description: A description about suggestions to help you
validations:
required: true
- type: dropdown
id: download
attributes:
label: Which area of this project could be most improved?
options:
- Documentation
- Pull request review time
- Bug fix time
- Release cadence
validations:
required: true
- type: checkboxes
attributes:
label: Check that box!
options:
- label: This one!
required: true
- label: I won't stop you if you check this one, too
- type: markdown
attributes:
value: |
### The thrilling conclusion
_to our template_
title: "[General] "
labels: ["General Introduction"]
body:
- type: markdown
attributes:
value: |
This is text that will show up in the template!
- type: textarea
id: improvements
attributes:
label: Top 3 improvements
description: "What are the top 3 improvements we could make to this project?"
value: |
1.
2.
3.
...
render: bash
validations:
required: true
- type: markdown
attributes:
value: |
## Markdown header
And some more markdown
- type: input
id: has-id
attributes:
label: Suggestions
description: A description about suggestions to help you
validations:
required: true
- type: dropdown
id: download
attributes:
label: Which area of this project could be most improved?
options:
- Documentation
- Pull request review time
- Bug fix time
- Release cadence
validations:
required: true
- type: checkboxes
attributes:
label: Check that box!
options:
- label: This one!
required: true
- label: I won't stop you if you check this one, too
- type: markdown
attributes:
value: |
### The thrilling conclusion
_to our template_
Top-level syntax
The configuration file for a discussion category form must contain a body key, and the body must contain at least 1 non-Markdown field.
body:
- type: input
id: suggestion
attributes:
label: Suggestion
description: "How might we make this project better?"
placeholder: "Adding a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file would be a great idea."
validations:
required: true
body:
- type: input
id: suggestion
attributes:
label: Suggestion
description: "How might we make this project better?"
placeholder: "Adding a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file would be a great idea."
validations:
required: true
You can set the following top-level keys for each issue form.
| Key | Description | Required | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
body | Definition of the input types in the discussion form. | Required | Array |
labels | Labels that will automatically be added to discussions created with this template. | Optional | Array or comma-delimited string |
title | A default title that will be pre-populated in the discussion submission form. | Optional | String |
To add fields to your form, include an array of form elements in the body key. For a list of available elements and their syntaxes, see "Syntax for GitHub's form schema."