I know there can be custom user fields, but is there any way of sorting out group requests and category watching from the signup form? (Either the normal Discourse signup form, or using a plugin, or separately using the API?) Thanks.

I guess there might be two possibilities. A Discourse plugin that changes the sign up process. A separate script that uses the Discourse API to sign up and simultaneously make a group request and/or watch certain categories. I’m pretty sure it’s not possible using the standard settings. Am…

I’m not sure what you mean by “sorting out” but this might be the droid you’re looking for :grin: Discourse-automation even if sign-up is not in the Available triggers list… but I guess maybe sign-up is also user added to group TL0 ?

I believe this plugin will work. [image] Custom Wizard Plugin mage plugin tada It is now much easier to subscribe for the advanced features tada Now all you have to do is hit ‘Subscribe’ from the admin page of the installed Custom Wizard Plugin and follow the prompts, an…

The Custom Wizard Plugin looks promising. I’ll have time to try it out next month! It looks like a wizard could be triggered straight after the user signs up, allowing notification levels to be set per category. The plugin also allows a user to be added to a group. I’m not entirely sure how Discou…

Your welcome. If you figure out a template for first time set Up for users to pick categories let me know haven’t had much time to dig deep.

[image] Benjamin Decotte: even if sign-up is not in the Available triggers list I think it is now (at least, “first logged on” is close enough): [image] Discourse Automation Add user to group through custom field :black_small_square:Recurring :black_small_square:First logged on Adds a us…

[image] Jonathan5: Would the Automation plugin be able to set watch status per category based on custom fields too? I don’t believe this is currently possible using Automation. However, I think we do have a new API endpoint that can now allow an admin to set a user’s notification level, which…

[image] JammyDodger: [image] Jonathan5: Would the Automation plugin be able to set watch status per category based on custom fields too? I don’t believe this is currently possible using Automation. Has this changed over the last year or so? (I’d like to have prospective users, on the …

[image] Jonathan5: (I’d like to have prospective users, on the signup page, be able to tick certain categories to decide which to “watch”.) That’s an interesting use case. You can use the “Add user to group through User Custom Field” automation script, and then set up the “Category default n…

Thank you. I will look into that. It does have the disadvantage of potential confusion when people change their notification settings but remain in the original group.

Choose groups and watched categories on signup

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Jonathan5 July 5, 2025, 12:59pm 16

Thanks again. I’m not too keen on using that because I think the answer to this question is still No:

Topic		Replies	Views
Make members of a group watch a category by default Feature completed	88	25444	April 21, 2022
API for Category based notification level update Development	9	2382	October 30, 2017
Alternative sign up pathways Support	38	558	November 17, 2024
API call to watch categories and tags Support	7	3051	October 31, 2021
Watching Categories based on on group in discourse Development	23	6446	May 16, 2016

Choose groups and watched categories on signup

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