Hi All, I am very much a remedial user of Discourse and need some assistance with changing our set up to reflect Discourse’s new structure I believe. We are set up with 5 categories - General Discussion, Societies, Committees, ACVR Diplomates, and ACVR Residents. [image] All of our groups were assigned one of those 5 categories. I used to be able to assign new groups to one of those 5 categories. Now when I create new groups, I don’t see a way to do so. Members of the groups can’t find the group now because it doesn’t appear on the list. (new user so can’t add another image here) Our Discourse is populated by Membership plans/types in our WP site. Thanks for any guidance you can provide that is easily understood.

[תמונה] ldietrich: So when I go to the category and click in the wrench I don’t see Committee as a parent category I can select. Everything is Committee and then a group There you went to the category committees, clicked the wrench, and don’t see committees as a possibility to be the parent category of itself because… :sweat_smile: well it’s self explanatory When you say everything is committees then a group, nope these are also (sub)categories which append to have Committees as a parent. You have to create a new category, name it AI ED Dev Committee(-thecategory), in its security tab, select the group you want to have access to it (I assume AI ED Dev Committee(-thegroup)) and as AI ED Dev Committee(-thegroup) has also access to the Committees category, you’ll be able to select Committees as a parent category for AI ED Dev Committee(-thecategory) [תמונה] ldietrich: Thanks for your time! I think I’m throwing in the hat. [Oh No Stop GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers]

[image] The parent in my mind should be the “Committee Category”.

[image] Can I create new Parents?

If I pick General Discussion will it move the groups under that on the landing page? [image]

[תמונה] ldietrich: Can I create new Parents? Hum, I’d say you can create any new category and then place some others “inside”, so yes but i think one tends to create new sub-categories more parents, which would require to re-arrange the whole set. Just to be clear a sub category can only have one parent [תמונה] ldietrich: If I pick General Discussion will it move the groups under that on the landing page? I’m not sure what you mean by that but it seems you try to have more than one nesting level, which is, although possible, not supported

Thanks. I understand what you are saying. I’m just struggling to make it work. My parent category I want to be “Committees” and then I would like all my “committee groups” to be the sub-categories. But I can’t seem to get a Parent set up. I am offered all these as options. I keep going in circles LOL! [image]

:thinking: You seems to have done it, Committees is parent (of many it seems) [תמונה] ldietrich: I would like all my “committee groups” to be the sub-categories. Choose “committees” as parent for each of them (hum.. maybe committees doesn’t appear because of discrepancy in groups related security parameter between the categories you want to become child and the parent one) The groups allowed to see the childs have to have access to the parent.

RIGHT?! I’m super confused! :slight_smile: Except I can’t get Committees to be a parent of the two most recent sub-categories/groups I have created. When I try and add the new committee group created to the “committee” category it tells me I have to have a parent to add the new group to what I see as the “parent”/category. And I go in circles…

[תמונה] ldietrich: the two most recent sub-categories/groups you have to let these two groups to “see” the parent category which you want to be “committees”. In the security tab of “committees” add these two groups and then for each category, pick “committees” as parent

Golly I owe you… Where do I do that? When I go to the group and permissions, it doesn’t give me the option to add permissions. [image]

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ldietrich (Libby Dietrich) 27 ביולי,‏ 2021,‏ 8:07pm 23

Well by golly Benjamin you did it! You finally got through to me and helped me figure it out. I almost could cry with how frustrated I had been! Thank you very much for sticking with me!!!

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