We have one category in our forum “The lounge” that when edited it does not give us as “permission” tab or in “general” tab does not allow to set “parent” or set “description” I don’t know how this category came about (probably it was auto created on install) but posts to this category don’t displa…

Search for Lounge :slight_smile:

Topics in the Lounge category display in the Latest page’s topic list here at meta for me. It is an “out of the box” category that members need to have Trust Level 3 group permissions for, and like other categories they may not have permissions for, will not display for them if they are not TL3. D…

@HAWK I hope you understand that you answer not very helpfull since the search produces 1000s of results @Mittineague thanks for trying to answer That is what I came in here to ask :wink: how do I make behave like all the rest of the categories

There is nothing special about the Lounge category, it has its own set of permissions like any other category, which you can edit by pressing edit on the category.

[Bild] GiorgosK: I hope you understand that you answer not very helpfull since the search produces 1000s of results Sorry for the ambiguity. I was suggesting that you searched for information before asking your question. As you point out, The Lounge has been discussed at great length (every i…

@codinghorror as I said in my first post I don’t see any permissions tab or “parent” setting or “description” setting on the “general” tab @HAWK yes indeed I searched but with so many results I can’t possibly read responses the few that I read were very specific and did not indicate that they are…

Can you share the screenshot of Lounge category’s editing modal?

@vinothkannans here is a screenshot with inspector open and hover over the highlighted section there is nothing hidden above where the description and parent would be [the-lounge2] NOTE: Also moving the scrollbars down there is nothing hidden under this section

You are missing the security tab, there. What version of Discourse is this? You should have mentioned that in the first post. And you are logged in as admin, yes?

@codinghorror please read the first line of the first post … I am mentioning the missing permission tab and I say it 2 more times on a subsequent post I am logged in as the SuperAdmin and I am on the latest version [v1.9.0.beta16 +96] as of now but even on beta15 and now have the issue described ab…

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sam (Sam Saffron) 19. Dezember 2017 um 11:04 12

Try safe mode, does it persist? Using Safe Mode to troubleshoot issues with themes and plugins Screenshot please

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