# Assign a topic to a group of users?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** assign, completed
**Created:** [13 בספטמבר, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512 "2019-09-13T20:43:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@tkwong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tkwong)
#### Post date: [13 בספטמבר, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/1 "2019-09-13T20:43:42Z")
Is it possible to assign a topic for a group of users using the Assign plugin?
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [14 בספטמבר, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/2 "2019-09-14T00:11:48Z")
Hey @tkwong 👋
No, you can only assign a topic to a single user. This user needs to be a member of an assign-allowed group.
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### Author:  [@Joshua\_Kogan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joshua_Kogan)
#### Post date: [24 בספטמבר, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/3 "2019-09-24T00:53:54Z")
Has anyone figured out ways to either assign multiple users, or use some other technique to workaround this limitation?
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### Author:  [@cwmke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cwmke)
#### Post date: [21 בנובמבר, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/4 "2019-11-21T19:48:30Z")
@Roman is adding this option likely in the future? It seams very useful for my situation. For example, being able to assign to `DesignGroup` or `EngineeringTeam` seems like it would be fairly common since those groups work on things together and only have 2-3 people in them.
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [23 בנובמבר, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/5 "2019-11-23T14:41:13Z")
I don’t think we’ll be adding this feature, sorry. I believe it goes against the purpose of the plugin because assigning a topic to a group makes it harder to tell who’s responsible.
Have you considered using tags instead?
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [25 בפברואר, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/6 "2020-02-25T01:52:28Z")
Would the thinking be different if the question were phrased as:
> Assign a topic/message to multiple users at the same time?
Very often we have a single request that needs to be handled independently by multiple people. (e.g., Persons X, Y, and Z need to do code review; team members A, B, C, and D all need to summarize their user interviews.)
Otherwise, we have to create parallel topics for the same request, to accomodate each assignee, which seems noisy.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [25 בפברואר, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/7 "2020-02-25T02:44:43Z")
We use assign in that way today, with the assignee being the task owner. Even if a task goes out to an entire team, each has a responsible party.
It would be really messy during a stand-up to ask for an update and have 15 people all try to chip in simultaneously.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [25 בפברואר, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/8 "2020-02-25T04:03:00Z")
We started considering an optional feature of being able to assign to groups.
No commitments yet, but we had some situations where it could be useful for largeish teams.
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### Author:  [@friednanners](https://meta.discourse.org/u/friednanners)
#### Post date: [10 ביוני, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/9 "2020-06-10T20:42:58Z")
Any movement on this one? Would be hugely helpful for our team. 🙏 Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [10 ביוני, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/10 "2020-06-10T20:49:19Z")
We discussed this again very recently, but couldn’t come up with an unanimous agreement about how it would work. It is not on the roadmap for the plugin.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [17 באוקטובר, 2022, 6:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/11 "2022-10-17T06:49:56Z")
This feature is now supported and implemented 🎊
The site setting `assign allowed on groups` controls the list of groups you can assign to. When a topic is assigned to a group it shows up in the individual assign list for all group members. They are notified when this assignment happens.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [17 באוקטובר, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-a-topic-to-a-group-of-users/128512/12 "2022-10-17T06:50:03Z")