# 创建隐藏用户、组和类别
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [2018年六月14日 11:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873 "2018-06-14T11:37:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Daan\_Seegers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daan_Seegers)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 11:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/1 "2018-06-14T11:37:08Z")
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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### Author:  [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 11:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/2 "2018-06-14T11:44:56Z")
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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### Author:  [@Daan\_Seegers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daan_Seegers)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 11:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/3 "2018-06-14T11:59:43Z")
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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### Author:  [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 12:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/4 "2018-06-14T12:05:47Z")
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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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 12:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/5 "2018-06-14T12:15:49Z")
But the users can still be revealed through the search function…
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### Author:  [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 12:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/6 "2018-06-14T12:28:35Z")
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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### Author:  [@Daan\_Seegers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daan_Seegers)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 12:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/7 "2018-06-14T12:44:36Z")
Even if they hidden?
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 13:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/8 "2018-06-14T13:07:26Z")
How do you hide a user ?
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### Author:  [@Daan\_Seegers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daan_Seegers)
#### Post date: [2018年六月14日 13:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/9 "2018-06-14T13:09:37Z")
> [@robmc](#):
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> 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?
Assuming to this you can hide Users, yes tutorials are read only @robmc