# Allowing users to request group membership from a topic?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-users-to-request-group-membership-from-a-topic/125123
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-users-to-request-group-membership-from-a-topic/125123 "2019-08-07T12:52:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![VFS](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vfs/32/152258_2.png) [@VFS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/VFS)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-users-to-request-group-membership-from-a-topic/125123/1 "2019-08-07T12:52:53Z")

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I’ve setup a members-only group that I’d like users to request access to. I’m wondering if there is a straightforward and easy way to duplicate “Request” button for a group inside of a topic?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/7/871d9a7e82a6c35a9c4148f705755156ebf5b368.png)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-users-to-request-group-membership-from-a-topic/125123/2 "2019-08-09T04:11:14Z")

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Can you link to the group page? Maybe use a screenshot of the button as the link target?