I have a private category on my Discourse site. By “private”, I mean only members of certain groups have access to the category. My boss wants the private category displayed to all users so that they can “yearn” (his word) to have access to it. Since the category won’t show up for people who are not in the special groups, I created a link to the category using the Admin Stylesheet and Header functions.
When “everyone” people click on the link to the private category, they see the 404 page that says “The page you requested doesn’t exist or is private.”
I would like “everyone” to be able to request an upgrade to their group membership via an easy-to-find link on that page. Can I add a link, or at least text, guiding them to send a Mod a private message? Or is there a more elegant solution?
I don’t think the lounge should be a “requestable” private category, as it is tied to Trust Level, and its security cannot be modified. To grant someone access to the Lounge, you would need to make them TL3. Besides, the lounge does not have read permissions for anyone else, so either you see it and have full access, or you don’t see it at all. Also, there is no permission to show categories in category view, but not have permission to click through to them - does your plugin create this “view”?
Ok, I understand your concerns perfectly. The plugin is still super green, but also the README can be misleading. In my production instance we don’t use the Staff or Lounge, or any other category with automatically managed permissions, so the technique (i.e. ugly hack) I’m using to show read-limited categories in the list doesn’t care about discriminating ones from the others.
So, yes: the Staff and Lounge categories will be shown and the plugin will pointlessly allow the user to request access to it. I intend to improve this in the future and I encourage you to open an issue in the repo so I don’t forget
Regarding your other question, the categories are shown but the link is removed, so you can’t click through to the topic list view for that category.
So nope: I’m not providing any new view. Instead of that, the plugin render a box encouraging the user to request access. This button just launches the private message composer pre-filled with some placeholder text.
I would like something like this, but with the ability to customize the text. For some private categories in my system, users can’t request access at all – but I’d like them to be visible.
홈페이지에 게시하는 것 외에도, 제한된 카테고리의 주제 링크를 클릭했을 때 그 카테고리에 접근하는 방법에 대한 안내를 보여주는 것이 목표인가요? 기존에 있는 상세한 404 알림이 그 용도로 작동하는지, 아니면 어떻게 작동하는지 확실하지 않아서, 만약 작동하지 않는다면 새로운 기능이 필요할 수 있습니다.
이것이 구독자를 위한 페이월이라면, Patreon과 같은 다른 플랫폼을 사용하는 것도 방법입니다. 해당 플랫폼은 이 목적에 맞게 작동하며 Discourse와 통합할 수 있습니다.
