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…

[이미지] 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 …

[이미지] 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) 2월 21, 2020, 11:58오후 12

토픽에도 실제로 존재합니다. 그래서 사적 메시지인데도 불구하고 대화상자에 "이 토픽에 초대"라는 (오해의 소지가 있는) 텍스트가 표시됩니다. (아마도 버그일 것입니다.)

Invite to PM text refers to topics

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Private Topics - are they supported? Product Support	26	11454	6월 1, 2018
Is there any way to restrict posting in a topic to members of a group, but allow all users to read the topic? Product Support	20	2445	2월 8, 2024
Add users to topic in private category Feature	15	6942	2월 24, 2015
Is it possible to have a category where users only see their own topics Product Support	6	274	12월 22, 2025
Private category for each user Product Support	13	763	5월 4, 2024

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