My company runs a discussion board that operates like most I expect, open topics that any of our members can post to. However, we now have a need to provide a locked ‘‘invite only’’ topic… is this possible? and if so what’s the easiest way of doing it? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

In broad terms you’re going to: Create a group via /groups Create the new category and delete the ‘everyone’ permission, replacing it with the group which will have access and the appropriate permission. If your users will be allowed to create topics they will need ‘create/reply/see’, whereas if t…

Could the topic be secured in a subcategory which is only accessible via invite-based group membership? Does it need to be a topic? Could it be a message? If not could you elaborate further on your use case? What is it you’re trying to achieve exactly? A topic may not be the best fit once we have …

Hi Stephen, Thanks for your reply. I think it needs to be a secured ‘‘invite only’’ category looking at it now… We run a membership site for government employee’s, the discourse discussion boards are part of a wider membership portal that you need login details to access. To get those login detail…

If you secure a category with a group then neither the category nor the topics will be visible to users outside of said group. You could use an announcement or theme component to advertise the existence of the group and detail any application process.

OK… sounds good, I’m assuming that all categories would be visible to those that could access the secure category. How would I go about doing that? Securing the category and inviting people to only that category? any suggestions?

Hi Stephen, Just setting his up now and I can’t seem to tick the box ‘‘allow users to send membership requests to the group owners box’’ [image] I can’t seem to tick the required box, it’s grayed out as it were… is this because I have set something else up wrong so where else?

The group visibility needs to be set to ‘Everyone’, otherwise people can’t see the group to be able to ask to join it. If you change it from Everyone then the box gets disabled automatically.

Shouldn’t that bottom most one also have the parenthesized disclaimer as well (requires publicly visible group) @sam ?

We may need to rework the wording a bit given @pmusaraj pending changes. Some groups may be only visible to logged on users, not public per se

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Stephen (Stephen) 1 Luglio 2019, 3:09am 8

La visibilità del gruppo deve essere impostata su ‘Tutti’, altrimenti le persone non possono vedere il gruppo per richiedere di entrarne a far parte.

Se la modifichi da ‘Tutti’, la casella viene disabilitata automaticamente.

"Allow users to send membership requests to group owners"

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