Hello! I want to change user groups permissions, for example: Admin Group - all permissions Co Admin - can do anything but cannot open some sections on admin pane How to do that? Thanks!

That’s not possible by default since admins have unrestricted access to all the sections of the forum. Depending on what kind of permissions you want to revoke, maybe demoting them to moderator can be helpful?

Moderator cannot create a categories and i want that

Where i find that? I looked through all the categories in the admin panel and did not see anything that I could assign to moderators. *Is there something like moderators_create_themes?

Go to admin > Settings Then search for the keyword moderators_create_categories

[image] dgateles: I looked through all the categories in the admin panel and did not see anything that I could assign to moderators. Is your Discourse up to date? [image] dgateles: *Is there something like moderators_create_themes? What you are asking is, "Is there something like ‘mod…

[image] pfaffman: What you are asking is, "Is there something like ‘moderators can crash the whole site by making a broken theme?’ ". I’m pretty sure that the answer is going to be “No.” You do not know who will tinker with the themes, how can you make that statement? I asked this question b…

My point is that if you trust someone enough to change themes then you can make them an admin. If you would like to allow non-admins to modify themes or otherwise change what a moderator can do you’ll need a custom plugin.

[image] pfaffman: My point is that if you trust someone enough to change themes then you can make them an admin. Not in my current scenario. We have UX and Design teams and they are only responsible for that area, so only access to the themes would be necessary.

We have this same use case as well. We have outside contractors (web designers) that we want to grant access to this. An full admin would have access to everything, including private management discussions, which is something not desirable. It would be nice to have a workflow that allows web desi…

How to define custom permissions for staff, admins, moderators

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) July 10, 2019, 10:45am 4

Mods can create categories if you enable the moderators_create_categories settings in your discourse admin.

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