# Assigning based on post content

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/assigning-based-on-post-content/387066
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** assign
**Created:** [October 29, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assigning-based-on-post-content/387066 "2025-10-29T14:22:49Z")
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### Author: ![Anton\_Akhmerov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/anton_akhmerov/32/169548_2.png) [@Anton\_Akhmerov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anton_Akhmerov)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assigning-based-on-post-content/387066/1 "2025-10-29T14:22:49Z")

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I would like to use discourse to assign a user to answer questions based on the contents of a templated post.

Specifically, if a student asks how a problem was graded, I want the topic to be assigned to the course team member that graded the problem. Private topics plugin, combined with topic templates, and assign all together nicely fit this workflow. Only doing the actual assignment is an open question.

So far it seems that doing so automatically would require either writing a plugin or running an external service. Is that correct? Any advice on what is the best way forward?

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