Make hidden users, groups and categories

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Hey Guys,

Is it possible to make groups in discourse that only can access (and see) specefic categories.
And they cannot see the other user?

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Yes - first you create the groups and make them visible to admins only, then when you create (or edit) a category you use the security settings so that only members of the relevant group have access to that content

make sense?

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Yes :),

But let say you use Discourse for your company.
And you make three categories.

  • Company 1
  • Company 2
  • Tutorials (For both companies), but this one is only read only

Is it possible to hide the employees of both companies (except in the
categories of them)

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Not sure what you mean - are you trying to stop someone seeing a list of members?

As I said, the membership list of a group can be hidden (to only admins, or +staff, or +members, or everyone), but if you are creating a category where any member can participate (Tutorials), then their details will show when they post any content - so what are you trying to achieve?

EDIT: saw your reference to ‘read only’ afterwards. In that case it still works as they are not posting. You cannot see a list of members who have access to a category.

However, word of warning, by default, the site will show a list of all ‘Users’ in the hamburger menu and so you will also need to hide this in the menu using CSS

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But the users can still be revealed through the search function…

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true (and autocomplete for usernames)

it would mainly work to find individuals, so no ‘list’ function though

However, it is unlikely to be a secure way of separating users from different companies if they REALLY must not be able to see the others

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Even if they hidden?

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How do you hide a user ?

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Assuming to this you can hide Users, yes tutorials are read only @robmc