Category Permissions

[BlueGuyARed (el presidente)]

Is there a way I can enable more category permissions on discourse? What I would like to do is make a forum section where users can receive anonymous support from staff members. Basically, anyone can create a topic and view the topic they create in that section, but only moderators and/or admins can respond to it. Is there a setting I can enable that does this?

Thanks.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Yep, set up incoming email mailbox support and it works exactly that way. Email in and the email creates a PM that they and staff can see.

[Pad_Pors]

in the category setting there exist such an option, it is slightly different setting though:

you can let users

• see posts,
• see or reply to posts,
• see or reply or create posts.

I mean you can’t let them create it, and then admins reply it.

here it is:

[BlueGuyARed (el presidente)]

@codinghorror

set up incoming email mailbox support

Where can I find information on how to do this?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

There is a howto about it if you search within that category.

[DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor)]

It sounds like you are asking for the feature requested in this thread:

New category permission : "Create and see"

Hi, I would like to have your opinion about a new permission for categories. I’m building a support platform using Discourse in which users can ask questions and “professional” users can answer. I would like to create a category in which standard users can ask questions but can only be answered by “professional” users. Standard users can see the questions and answers of others but can only create their own topics or answer their own topics. Currently we have “Create, answer, see”, “Answer, s…

Although it’s not implemented you might find the conversation there provides you with other ideas.