Hello, I have an odd issue. I have a category with 15 subcategories. This allows us to enable permission for each subcategory in line with our course schedule by adding the current cohort user group to the category at the appropriate time. This has worked for 2 iterations of our course so far witho…

[image] Nick-Permaculture: In fact, it will not let me make ANY edits to the category settings now that I am exploring this more. And this is only for this single subcategory. Did you check the tab with the general settings of that category? In September a few users had that problem because t…

Cannot update category security permission for one category

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Nick-Permaculture (Nick J) January 19, 2026, 10:42pm 6

Knew it must be some weird issue. Indeed, only FFF, and that prevented the category from saving as it was an unfinished entry. Thanks!

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Cannot update category security permission for one category

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