More detailed URL query string parameter control

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Proposal

Allow for URL query string parameters to define the description of a custom template when creating a new issue.

E.g creating an issue we can already use a URL like so:

https://gitlab.com/root/therepo/-/issues/new?issue[title]=TestIssue&issue[description]=Blahblahblah

Or like so:

https://gitlab.com/root/therepo/-/issues/new?issuable_template=Security&issue[title]=TestIssue

But the description of the Template cannot be set by the URL parameters since the Template sets it. Hence the following will not load 'Blahblahblah' into the description:

https://gitlab.com/root/therepo/-/issues/new?issuable_template=Security&issue[description]=Blahblahblah

It would be ideal if I could append information to the custom template description

E.g the something like following would produce the below issue

https://gitlab.com/root/therepo/-/issues/new?issuable_template=Security&issue[description][Append]=Blahblahblah

This would be useful as on our site we have auto-creation buttons for Gitlab issues which load in relevant information form the page you are on. We want to use templates that are pre-loaded with relevant information.

Additionally, just using the API instead doesn't work either as it has the same restrictions