# Make a "locked" category visible (on the list of choices) to non-members?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-a-locked-category-visible-on-the-list-of-choices-to-non-members/54276>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2016 年12 月 15 日 00:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-a-locked-category-visible-on-the-list-of-choices-to-non-members/54276 "2016-12-15T00:45:41Z")\
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作者： ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
发布日期： [2018 年2 月 16 日 22:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-a-locked-category-visible-on-the-list-of-choices-to-non-members/54276/13 "2018-02-16T22:58:53Z")

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> [@tophee](#):
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> I also think it would be really useful to let users see which categories exist, even if they can’t access them.

One way that I’ve dealt with this was to create a topic that had all the categories. I thought I had some ruby code that would build the list, but sadly I don’t see it now.

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