Advanced search limited to categories you can reply in

Contribute Bug
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Categorized option doesn’t show the options correctly.

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As you can see (hopefully), the “Categorized” search option in the Advanced Search is limited to only what you are allowed to post in. I think you’re supposed to be able to search within what categories you can look in.

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@j.jaffeux can you have a look at this, we allow categories to be “read only” by setting it in the security tab.

I think this particular page should ship the list of “allowed read” categories and then use it to populate the dropdown.

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This should be fixed by:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/01f999595624de853b4d6ac77eaddfc7714d6c3c

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I didn’t follow exactly what you said, I think the solution is enough, but I have a limited knowledge of all the category permissions flow. From my tests it seems to work as intended, please let me know if you think I forgot a case.

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