Hi there - I’m after a bit of advice about the best way to set up an automated step. We are using a discourse platform as an LMS. Our first cohort will close next week, and I would like to automate this as I won’t be at work. I would essentially like to hide the categories from participants, witho…

[image] catdog: hide the categories from participants, No, close topics is not the right way. You should change the categories permissions to make them private for staff only, see How to use category security settings to create private categories

Ok - thanks - is it possible to automate this though? That’s my primary goal here - I won’t be at work next week but need to remove all participants on Tuesday night.

Just to add - what I think I’m after is the topic timer, but for categories.

I think that you’d need either a plugin or to do it via the API (with something that would make the API calls at the appropriate time).

Not sure if this is what your looking for. But there is a plugin that hides responses to the Topic from all except Topic creator and possibly a group.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately that sounds a bit beyond my skillset! All good, I guess I am logging on on Tuesday after all…!

Cheers @Heliosurge - I’ll have a bit of a look for that.

Your welcome. Had sometime to do a keyword search. Here is a link to the plugin. [image] Discourse Private Replies Plugin Github: GitHub - communiteq/discourse-private-replies This plugin hides topic replies for everyone but the topic starter and the post a…

Thanks so much - really appreciate you finding it (I had a go, but was coming up short!) Unfortunately it’s not quite going to achieve what I’m after in this case (automatic hiding of all categories for all but mods), but I can see a use for this somewhere else in our course. Thank you.

Your welcome. If it is to hide for full mods and Admins. Only other idea would be to allow Mods to create categories in settings. With that any one with full mod or admin level can change Category Permissions. Ie from Everyone see/reply/create Delete everyone and change it to Staff. Alternati…

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) Décembre 15, 2020, 10:53 9

Je vous en prie. J’ai eu le temps de faire une recherche par mot-clé.

Voici un lien vers le plugin.

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