Does Trello offer this?
Maybe I just cannot find such a card in https://trello.com/b/k5N0ivoM/research-and-data that exposes this pattern?
Or am I on the wrong board (I don't know trello well)?

I don't think that Trello was the inspiration for this request.

We are trying to make requests to Research more efficient by asking stakeholders to provide some standard information when they file the request. This will reduce communication cycles and help Research to prioritize requests and potentially find better solutions without first expending effort on solutions that are not appropriate to the problem.

Understood, but can this feature request be considered a blocker for the
migration from Trello when you don't have it in Trello?

I'll let Dario comment on Trello.

But what is the process for getting this upstreamed? This feature would be hugely valuable to us. Thanks!

@Qgil that's a fair point, we don't need to mark this as a blocker. Phab will make it easy for anyone to submit data requests to the team and we're already struggling to balance these one-off requests with our quarterly priorities. I want to understand if there's a simple way to make incoming requests sufficiently structured to be more tractable and minimize the amount of effort needed to assess them.

I wonder whether this is already supported using task creation with URL parameters: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Passing_certain_values_in_the_task_creation_URL

Tests in https://phab-01.wmflabs.org welcome.

indeed, do you know how to use the "template" parameter?

@Qgil I tried to remove this task as a blocker to Research migration, but it was grayed out so I could not remove it. Are you able to remove it?

Also, could we get some help implementing the template parameter?

Thanks!

@ Ciencia_Al_Poder Thank you!

@DarTar @ggellerman, next time you only need to go to the blocked task and click "Blocked By".

Playing a bit one can see that with a bit of patience and Wikipedia :), you can create your magical URL. This is what I got after 10 minutes of research and development:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?description=%2A%2AFirst%20line%3A%2A%2A%20Comment%0D%0D%2A%2ASecond%20line%3A%2A%2A%20etc

(click it)

In T91538#1093639, @Qgil wrote:

@DarTar @ggellerman, next time you only need to go to the blocked task and click "Blocked By".

Playing a bit one can see that with a bit of patience and Wikipedia :), you can create your magical URL. This is what I got after 10 minutes of research and development:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?description=%2A%2AFirst%20line%3A%2A%2A%20Comment%0D%0D%2A%2ASecond%20line%3A%2A%2A%20etc

(click it)

And there are online tools that will perform that encoding giving an input text. Choose what you prefer.

I'm not aware of functionality in Phabricator itself though to set a template for a field. Only by passing stuff via URL parameters.

I edited the task description by linking to the upstream Phabricator ticket about providing prefilling of all fields in all forms.

Via a custom hack it might be possible to set $task->setDescription("foo\nfoo"); in src/applications/maniphest/controller/ManiphestTaskEditController.php with some if condition on the project.

This is not really stalled but rather blocked by T120013 I'd say. :)

See https://phab-01.wmdlabs.org which has been updated with the forms code. It does seem feasible to implement this now (as soon as we deploy the next major phabricator upgrade. Note, this deployment is currently on hold pending extensive testing of the changes so that we can understand potential breakage and adjust to required workflow changes)

It's now possible to implement template forms for specific projects or special use-cases. To request a custom form for your project, open a new task for Project-Admins describing what you would like to do.

Adding Research (as implied by the desc in Research-and-Data-2015-Q4) to get feedback on T91538#4189775.