# 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: ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-sign-up-pathways/331808/4 "2024-10-22T17:57:45Z")

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Hello 👋

I think the most of these available with: groups, categories permission, custom user fields and automation.

To separate users on signup use [Discourse Authentication Validations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-authentication-validations/292547) chaining user fields function. So you can show separate user fields depends on what they choose on the first option ( architect or laypeople. )

After this, with [Discourse Automation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-automation/195773) you can automatically add these users to the expected group.

For example:

| User Field Option | Group |
| --- | --- |
| architect → | architect |
| laypeople → | laypeople |

Finally set up the categories permissions for these groups.

- architect group can see architect and laypeople categories
- laypeople group can see laypeople categories

Something like this maybe can help and add some idea. 🙂

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