The discussion revolves around a desired feature to display category names and topic titles to all users, while restricting access to the content of those topics to a specific user group. TheEvilPrince is looking for a way to provide a “tease” to users outside the group, showing topic titles but not allowing them to view details. simon suggests setting category permissions to “See” for non-group members, which would allow them to view the category but not create or reply to topics. erlend_sh mentions that a plugin can accomplish this with some caveats, and shares links to relevant discussions on “advertise activity in a private category” and “content lockers.”
I tried searching for this, but could not find anything.
Installed less than a week.
I have a category that I created a special user group for. So that user group is the only one that can read/reply/create in that category.
What I would like to be able to do is have the category name and the topics IN that category display to everyone, but everyone can not actually open those topics and read them, only those who are in the special user group.
In other words, that category is currently completely hidden to those not in the new user group. I’d like to be able to supply a tease to those who are not, so they have an idea as to what is there, but can not view details, only topic titles, until they are in the new group.
The closest you can get to this is to set the category permissions for everyone except members of the group to See. Doing that will let everyone see the content of the category topics, but they won’t be able to create or reply to topics.