Automatically granting permissions to new members?

[DyNite]

When someone joins my discourse group, is there a way to grant certain permissions to access/post and comment in a particular sub-category?
Currently manually granting permissions to be able to comment/post.

Most of the community comes from Discord.

Thanks for the help!

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

Yes there is! You just have to give the group the permissions you want using the Category Security settings. This post explains this in detail:

How to create private categories using category security settings

This video explains how you can use group permissions to create private categories (or private “forums”). Scroll down for written instructions. [How to create a group and add permissions to a category] The Security tab on the category edit page is used to control both the visibility of categories and what users can do in a category. This is done by defining an access list of groups that associate a group name with an access level. The default permission for a new category is that t…

[DyNite]

Thank you!
Fastest response ever, I was just checking out the team page haha

[DyNite]

Is there a way to automatically give a new user a specific role when they join, either from an invite link or predetermined email…so that it will automatically enroll them into the group and permissions

[ondrej]

@DyNite

invite link

Yeah there is. It links with @osioke’s group security settings he linked above. When you invite someone you can add them to a group. As you can see you can also restrict the invite by email so that only that person gets the role.