# Is using type: group in plugins no longer working?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/type-group/405487>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** plugin-api\
**Created:** [June 17, 2026, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/type-group/405487 "2026-06-17T08:08:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/type-group/405487/6 "2026-06-17T09:14:15Z")

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I’m not sure. As the TODO notes, while working on the importer script, I noticed that the type `group` seems to be stored as a text, not an ID. I guess it was never implemented as a select. In the beginning of Discourse we mostly had text fields for site settings. This might still be a remnant of it.

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