Default sidebar categories

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I have set 4 categories as sidebar default, they are all restricted. When i invite a user to join discourse with group permission to some of that categories sidebar still empty for that user.
Can someone help out? Thanks!

2

Sidebar is/going to be heavily for users, not for admins. But as admin you can set defaults in settings of Discourse.

3

That’s what he did…

4

I did but it doesn’t work, new user get none categories on Sidebar

5

Are these new users or existing users?

If they are existing users, when you change the default sidebar categories, you’ll have to apply the changes in the settings historically:

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That only applies the change historically, so if you have already added default categories that you want to apply historically now, you’ll have to do the following:

  1. Remove the categories and click “No, only apply change going forward”
  2. Add them back, and click “Yes”
6

New users or existing, if the category is restrict to a certain group it doesnt show up, even if the user belongs to that group.

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I just did the following on a test site earlier before responding to this other topic:

  1. Added a category #foo that is only visible to the group @foo
  2. Added the #foo category to default sidebar categories
  3. Clicked “Yes” to apply historically
  4. Logged in as “Frank”, a user who is not part of the @foo group.
  5. Verified they do not see #foo in their sidebar
  6. Added “Frank” to the @foo group
  7. Refreshed the page in Frank’s window
  8. Verified they do see #foo in their sidebar
  9. Removed “Frank” from the @foo group
  10. Refreshed the page in Frank’s window
  11. Verified they do not see #foo in their sidebar

Any idea what might be different on your end?