# Alternative sign up pathways

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-sign-up-pathways/331808
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 21, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-sign-up-pathways/331808 "2024-10-21T00:09:47Z")
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### Author: ![Paul\_King](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paul_king/32/165426_2.png) [@Paul\_King](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_King)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-sign-up-pathways/331808/36 "2024-11-04T02:00:04Z")

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What would help a lot is for there to be a way for the forum administrator to directly nominate or override the accessible user group(s) and thus categories assigned to the user, while first approving the users - all from the same ‘Approve User’ dialog.

in fact the whole user profile should probably be editable from this dialog - to allow clean-up of identified user errors in custom user fields.

Currently the only way tidy up profile issues on sign up seems to involve a lot of jumping around to other areas in addition to approving the user - with significantly higher risk of error or omission on the part of the administrator as a result.

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