Hi All,
I’m considering the use of Discourse at my organisation and wanted to get advice about how users can create private groups/topics/chats.
My use case is, I want to have public open forums, but the ability for users to create a topic or chat and limit who can see and use this topic.
E.g
Automative forum (open)
Any help would be appreciated!
You can do all these things using category settings and custom groups.
There are several topics that deal with these configurations, just use internal research
Basically you can create an “Audi Australia” group and you can configure the group so that users can enter only if approved by the owners of the group or only if users register with a particular email domain (e.g. audi.australia@your.site.com).
After that you need to create an “Audi Australia” category and you have to configure the permissions to “create see and reply” only for the “Audi Australia” group.
No one outside the group “Audi Australia” will see that category or see the topics that belong to that category (except for the staff of course).
All the categories with the “everyone can create reply and see” permissions will be public
You can create groups (collections of users) and give them access to categories. The group owner can control membership.
It requires an admin to set stuff up.
Thanks for the responses, is there any way to allow the users to do this? Similar to creating a channel on Slack.
No, users can’t create groups and categories. However, they can (usually) create PMs, and invite whoever they want to those, but they’re not “in a category” in the usual sense.
You also consider that the creation of automatic groups by users can be deleterious.
You could have dozens of groups dealing with the same theme that have a similar name.
Paradoxically, your users could create:
before realizing that there is already an Audi Australia group. Or worse, a user could join the group, find users he does not like and create an Australia Audi group etc…
The simplest thing instead is:
In this way every user can self-manage himself.
聊天/频道是否也可以仅限于该用户组，并由该用户组的管理员进行管理？
是的。
当管理员创建聊天频道时，它必须与一个类别相关联。然后，该频道将继承其链接到的类别的安全设置，因此如果X组可以访问Y类别，那么它也将可以访问Y频道（根据为该频道设置的选项，自动添加或手动加入该频道）。
链接到公共类别的频道将像类别本身一样对所有用户开放。
这个插件如果自托管，可能会帮助您实现一些所需的功能。
结合群组和分类安全设置，您可以让某个分类中的主题由 OP（主题创建者）进行管理。使用群组来限制谁可以创建用于讨论的主题。
管理组中的成员也可以是通用组中的所有者。
在分类设置中，有一个设置可以在某人无法发帖时显示消息。因此，如果分类具有安全设置：
所有人 查看
您可以有一个弹出消息，其中包含申请加入群组的链接。
