Iceman
November 18, 2021, 1:50pm
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Sorry for the Necromancy, but this is the top result while searching and other topics (linked below) are either closed or not as clear when it comes to the question.
Following the logic exposed here and in similar topics, it seems that the best way is to add “everyone” to a certain group and then remove from said group the users that you want “banned” from a category, since we don’t have an option to remove “see” permission from groups, only add .
This seems fairly logical, but let’s say that your instance has 5k users, do you have to add them all by hand? And keep updating it whenever a new user joins? I’m not certain if there is any “cheatcode” like “@everyone ” when adding users to a group, doesn’t seem like it.
Is there a better way and I missed it?
Thanks.
Other related topics:
Is this possible?
I have searched for the answer to this and I have decided that this is ‘likely’ not possible right now but I want to be sure.
Could it be done with a simple plugin (vs a complex plugin that only an expert could write)?
I do not want to make a Category which only certain Groups can see and participate in.
Also, a PM is not what I am looking for.
Continuing the discussion from Suspend as way to expire membership :
After suggesting to another user that instead of suspending a user they could put them in a group and change category permissions. I recently came across my own use case for this, where I needed to add some users to my instance and only give them access to one category. It does not seem like there is an easy way to do so, without modifying the permissions for every other category, and putting all other users in their own grou…
Does anyone have any ideas, tips or tricks how to exclude members from a specific group from accessing a specific category?
What would be the easiest way to accomplish that?
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…
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