# Discourse Automation **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-automation/195773 **Category:** Plugin **Tags:** official, automation, included-in-core **Created:** [July 2, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-automation/195773 "2021-07-02T13:10:54Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 175
### Author: ![Paul\_King](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paul_king/32/165426_2.png) [@Paul\_King](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_King) #### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-automation/195773/175 "2025-08-20T14:45:45Z")
Thanks @j.jaffeux Below are what I hope are the relevant screenshots - There are two groups I am dividing my users into: ‘Private Forum User’ or ‘Public Forum User’. - A user must select one of these by name when signing up, from a dropdown custom user variable called ‘Forum Access Level’. - When they complete their signup correctly and are approved, the Automation plugin then fails to put them into either of those groups, no matter what group they chose. ![Discourse Automation dialog](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/f/6/1f6360a911a1a1ce10253bfdeb451f0b39fe82c7.png) ![Custom user feilds dialog](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/e/b/febd599cbea9e02ad4b2973f02464fc9f0bff75d.png) ![Groups dialog](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/e/8/4e866a45314a68dee16a826167f5e3513ce1222a.png) The result for all new approved user profiles is as below (the group setting remains unpopulated, until I manually set it to one or both of the groups myself) ![Resulting user profile dialog](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/b/f/bbf0370788b6b1ae7f939f5104be73bb96e1f4db.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-automation/195773)._