I have quite an unusual setup. On my private forum I need to create a space for my coaching clients. Ideally I’d like to create a Category “Coaching Clients” with Subcategories “Client A”, “Client B”, and so on. In order to achieve it, I believe I’d need to configure “Coaching Clients” category …

[image] Ludwik C. Siadlak: Is this the only way to achieve this? Yes. Groups are the cornerstone of category security in Discourse.

If you don’t want to create a group for each client then you can instead use pms. Your can use tags to organize them, if they would help for some reason.

If each “CLIENT” is a single individual & you’re self hosted. Private Topics plugin might work. [image] Private Topics Plugin Plugin information_source Summary Private Topics Enables private topics in a regular category hammer_and_wrench Repository Lin…

Subcategory access for Users, not Groups?

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Falco (Falco) October 4, 2024, 4:16pm 2

Yes.

Groups are the cornerstone of category security in Discourse.

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Subcategory access for Users, not Groups?

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