# Auto assign topic to group
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-assign-topic-to-group/378624
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** assign, automation
**Created:** [August 14, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-assign-topic-to-group/378624 "2025-08-14T16:04:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tknospdr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tknospdr)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-assign-topic-to-group/378624/1 "2025-08-14T16:04:30Z")
Follow up question.
Is there a way to automatically assign a topic in certain categories to a group?
I didn’t find a way to do that, and the automation plugin only has a “random assign” workflow which doesn’t look useful for what I want.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-assign-topic-to-group/378624/2 "2025-08-14T16:16:31Z")
Yea I think this would need a custom automation script, but i could be wrong. you might be able to use the random assign somehow and run it often. 🤔
you could use the group tracking function too.
note you also get the `unassigned` nav filter at the top of the category topic view page if you enable `Add unassigned filter to category` category setting
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### Author:  [@Michael12](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Michael12)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-assign-topic-to-group/378624/3 "2025-08-14T21:00:43Z")
You can’t do that out of the box, but you could set it up with a custom automation or small plugin. Another option is to trigger “assign” via API when a topic is created in that category, pointing it to the group.
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### Author:  [@tknospdr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tknospdr)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-assign-topic-to-group/378624/4 "2025-08-14T21:13:35Z")
> [@Michael12](#):
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> Another option is to trigger “assign” via API when a topic is created in that category, pointing it to the group.
I looked into that, but it’s a little beyond me on how to implement it.
ChatGPT suggested:
Option A — Core Webhook → API call (no plugin code)
1. Enable group assignments
In site settings, add your group to assign allowed on groups. This enables assigning topics to that group.
2. Create a “Topic event” webhook
Admin → Settings → Webhooks → New.
Event type: Topic; check created.
(Optional) Filter to your tickets category so it only fires there.
Set a secret; save. Discourse sends topic\_created payloads with the topic id/url.
3. Handle the webhook in Zapier/Make/or your own endpoint
Parse the payload; grab topic.id (and confirm the category if you didn’t filter in step 2).
Call the Assign endpoint to assign the group
Use an Admin API key + username. (General API doc + how to “reverse-engineer” endpoints if not documented.)
4. Practical tip: open your browser dev tools on a topic, manually click Assign → your group, and copy the network request (path + params). Use that exact request in your webhook handler. (The Assign UI is part of core now; the controller exposes the same route the UI uses.)
This gives you immediate, deterministic assignments the moment a topic is created in tickets.
And I got lost at step 3.