# Theme component: How to get a user's groups (not current user)?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-component-how-to-get-a-users-groups-not-current-user/260223
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 1, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-component-how-to-get-a-users-groups-not-current-user/260223 "2023-04-01T18:23:37Z")
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-component-how-to-get-a-users-groups-not-current-user/260223/1 "2023-04-01T18:23:37Z")
Hi,
I’m working on a theme component to restrict users’ status to groups.
I have difficulty getting a user’s group data (ID) in the following contexts:
- user’s card
- chat messages.
Requesting `.json` is out of the question.
I did not find any specific route; although it may be okay in a card, it’s not in chat messages.
Is there a way I’m unaware? 🤔
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-component-how-to-get-a-users-groups-not-current-user/260223/2 "2023-04-01T23:26:17Z")
i didn’t even think of the chat messages angle because we don’t use that component but now i see how that needs to be accounted for as well with any user status restriction options.
i may end up enabling the user status for all users. but as admin of a sports based forum with a user base made up almost entirely of men of a certain age-demographic (lol), i feel like they will find ways to use that feature to troll others or use it in ways it isn’t intended. one of my mods is already complaining because i enabled the updated avatar user menu. lol