# Better flow for group membership requests

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-flow-for-group-membership-requests/64412>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** groups, completed\
**Created:** [June 13, 2017, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-flow-for-group-membership-requests/64412 "2017-06-13T09:10:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![scombs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/scombs/32/48616_2.png) [@scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scombs)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-flow-for-group-membership-requests/64412/8 "2017-06-13T12:58:30Z")

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My initial thoughts on PM approach:

- Allow user to request group membership from groups page or individual group page via join button (as currently implemented)
- Send request PM in background
- Change button text for requestor to “Request Pending”
- Exclude requestor from PM (or would need to allow TL0 permission to send; hide PM dialogue)
- Send request PM to all owners
- Include link to an Approval Page in request PM (include all pending requests on page)
- Upon owner action for the request, send welcome/declined PM to requestor and owners (with default PM text for approval PM and for declined PM which can each be customized by sender at time of sending)

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