您好，
我之前有个想法……是的，是的，我知道，别胡思乱想，对吧……；)
我想，我们许多“富有创意”的用户经常在各种主题下发布他们正在制作的内容，并且涉及不同的“课程”（在我们的情况下）。我在想，他们是否可能希望拥有一个类似“作品集”的功能。
我的想法是：用户创建一个主题，然后添加他们的截图、视频片段、代码示例或其他任何内容。之后，他们可以回到“自己的”主题，并可能时不时地添加一条包含新内容的回复。
可能会让情况变得复杂的是，如果其他用户也能回复，那么原本持续更新的作品集可能会在中间夹杂一堆对话，而这些对话或许更适合放在现有的主题中，以保持“作品集”的整洁。
所以，我的问题是：目前是否可以创建权限设置，使得只有主题的作者（管理员除外）能够回复该主题？我注意到有“创建/回复/查看”、“回复/查看”和仅“查看”等权限，并且这些权限可以应用于各种用户组。不确定是否有某种组合能够实现上述功能？
提前感谢您的帮助或建议。
此致问候，
Rob
Perhaps the easiest would be for members to send a message to themselves. This would be equivalent to them having their own personal topic that others could not access unless invited into it.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply and idea.
I should have probably mentioned public portfolio 
So, they create a topic that everyone can see, but they are the only ones who can reply to it. I appreciate that they could just edit their original topic rather than replying to it, but I don’t expect a vast amount of our users would do that, equally, it may be beneficial to have the timestamp that comes with a reply against each update that they make to their portfolio.
No, per topic permissions are not a thing in Discourse, and there are no plans for them to be.
(other than PMs)
You’d need to set up a whole category for this to wrap permissions around it.
Hi Jeff,
You’d need to set up a whole category for this to wrap permissions around it.
That would have been the plan, e.g. have a category for them to post their portfolio topics in, but from what I can see, there isn’t then a way to then restrict the replies to only the author of a topic in that category.
Why can’t you simply ask people not to post in the topic, if you don’t want anyone else to post in it? I’m a little unclear why “just put a notice on it” isn’t sufficient?
The author could flag any post they don’t want in their topic.
Yeah, I guess we could do that, there is the “About the xxxxxx category” topics where I suppose this message could go, and it could be pinned… I just have a feeling that as soon as people start seeing other people’s work it would be “Hey man, that’s really cool”…
I do understand the point of Discourse is one of conversation and what I was thinking of above kinda goes against that.
Not to worry, just wondered if it was possible with the current permissions etc.
I have a similar challenge
I want to set up a “diary” category with following setup for topics:
Is something like that possible?
@RobMeade @anon36484860 - you’ve probably already solved this, but here’s an idea for future readers:
Add a Special Group with one member - the portfolio owner.
Set Permissions on the Category to:
Everyone: see
Special Group: Create/Reply/See
I don’t know if you’d run into limitations on how many one person groups you could create, but it might get you where you need to go.
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for the reply and the suggestion.
I’m not sure how well that would work for us in practical terms though. It would mean having to have an entire category for a portfolio/user, as opposed to just a topic, which means if we had sat a thousand people that wanted to do that we’d have a parent category with then a thousand sub-categories. I suspect this would then introduce some UX issues too as unless the users name was near the beginning of the alphabet they would potentially be doing a lot of scrolling, as would anyone else just passing through that wanted to look at someone else work.
There would be perhaps more overhead on creating all of those sub-categories too, as well as the ongoing maintenance of them.
I think I had envisaged the solution being topics-in-a-category.
For the time being I’ve shelved the idea as I don’t think Discourse would be the most suitable solution, not because of any limitations of the product, more because of my seemingly off the wall demands
IIRC, there have been discussions about members having a type of “personal topic” page under their Profile. But AFAIK they never got anywhere.
Even then that might not be what you’re thinking of, if you’re thinking of displaying public “topics” that aren’t intended to be discussions in topic lists.
I was thinking in terms of a user having a portfolio, a topic (possibly several if they wanted to separate the subject matter of their work) which they could post to but to literally only show their work, as opposed to having the extra noise of comments that people may add as they see the posts and work.
The only way I could see that working would be to limit who could post on that topic to only the topic owner, and obviously mods/admin. This would prevent others from adding noise, but they could still like topics to show their appreciation of the work.
Idea is currently shelved