I’ve read dozens of topics about groups, categories, sub-categories, etc. Somewhere along the way I thought I remembered seeing that you can add specific members to be able to access a document (kind of like gDoc/Google Document permissions) But I can’t find that thread! Maybe it was talking about s…

I feel @Stephen gave you the solution without really knowing it: Private messages. The person creating the PM can add a lot of users and in the end, it pretty much works like a thread. Try it, you’ll see. As for being part of a “category”, if the thread is private, thus not visible publicly, and on…

[image] jord8on: I want to be able to have a private topic within a public category, You won’t be able to do that with discourse.

The only kinds of per topic memberships are in private messages. These obviously aren’t part of categories, public or private.

@pfaffman and @Stephen - thanks for the quick responses and the confirmation that it’s not possible to have private topics in a public category. Based on the scenario I shared, what might be our best workaround? Maybe just have private categories for all of our coaches/pros and they can start a new…

Why not create groups per-cohort and use group messaging?

Or create a group and sub-category for each cohort.

Or write a plugin that can tag a PM to any topic and show an ‘Add and/or Edit a PM associated with this Topic’ icon/button on all topics. (The ‘Edit’ icon/buttons would only be available to people in the distribution list of the PM, the ‘Add’ icon/button would appear on all topics)

Yes, that works for one issue, but try it for 10 public topics where you have created a PM for each of the 10 public topics and each of the 10 PMs has a different recipient list. That system very quickly gets unwieldy. BUT, if we had the ability to tag a PM to specific topics using a new plugin as…

@DaleKramer I think you share my sentiment about why it would be nice to make private topics within an existing public category. In the short term I’m glad to have this PM option as a workaround b/c it seems like it could help me do what I’m looking to do.

Yes, that actually looks like a pretty clean workaround! THIS is the image i remember seeing! (adding people to a PM) but I didn’t realize it was a PM at the time. I must have created an illusion that this feature existed for Topics. Nonetheless… Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to elaborate …

[image] jord8on: I must have created an illusion that this feature existed for Topics It does exist for topics, too. :slight_smile: That’s why the (misleading) text in the dialog says “invite to this topic” even though it’s a private message. (A bug, perhaps.)

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downey (Michael Downey) Février 21, 2020, 11:58 12

Elle existe aussi pour les sujets. C’est pourquoi le texte (trompeur) dans la boîte de dialogue indique « inviter à ce sujet », même s’il s’agit d’un message privé. (Un bug, peut-être.)

Invite to PM text refers to topics

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