# Invite users to certain categories/topics of a closed forum

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2017 年 7 月 9 日午後 8:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-users-to-certain-categories-topics-of-a-closed-forum/65908 "2017-07-09T20:22:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![cryptochrome](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cryptochrome/32/74380_2.png) [@cryptochrome](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cryptochrome)\
**Post date:** [2017 年 7 月 11 日午前 11:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-users-to-certain-categories-topics-of-a-closed-forum/65908/9 "2017-07-11T11:34:19Z")

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Thanks David, appreciate it 🙂

We already have all categories set up in a way that they are only accessible to certain groups.

If we disable “loin required” that would open up the forum for anonymous access then? And those users would see everything that is not locked down to specific group access?

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