# Chats for Discourse Groups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chats-for-discourse-groups/223967
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [April 11, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chats-for-discourse-groups/223967 "2022-04-11T20:33:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chats-for-discourse-groups/223967/1 "2022-04-11T20:33:50Z")

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I see right now it’s possible to link a chat channel to a category or a topic and then also to have personal chats with people one adds, but, I don’t see a way to connect a chat channel to Discourse Groups found at, for example, [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/g).

I’d love this feature to be able to automatically set up group chats connected to the Discourse Groups, as it’d allow all the moderators to chat in one channel, or staff, or admins, or students of a particular cohort, etc.

Is this currently possible or on the roadmap?

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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chats-for-discourse-groups/223967/2 "2022-04-11T20:50:27Z")

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I did it using detour — using category limited to a group. Same result, different solution.

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### Author: ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chats-for-discourse-groups/223967/3 "2022-04-11T21:06:18Z")

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Haha, I like that idea and think that’ll probably be fine for now, especially if I make the category permissions so that only people in that group can see the category.

Thanks for the suggestion, @Jagster! 😃

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chats-for-discourse-groups/223967/4 "2024-02-04T10:12:44Z")

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See [Create chat channels connected to a group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-chat-channels-connected-to-a-group/254186)