I would prefer that every right could also be configured using all other groups, handling other groups identical to “owners”, “members”,“moderators” but would be happy also with a solution if every “Who is allowed to do something” would be followed with a “Which groups are allowed to do something”.
With “designated category” I was thinking about an option in the category admin interface to configure a category as an “outlet” for one [1] special group. Without such configuration, nothing should change.
I tried above to describe a fundamentally different need for using Discourse in formal settings.
In informal communities, categories are organized thematically.
Formal communities are most likely represented in such a way that the category structure corresponds to the structure of the community.
In the case of our school, there are categories for individual learning groups, grade levels, and grade groups, which are then further divided into areas for parents alone and areas for parents and teachers.
For collaboration between these different groups or collaboration with individual experts, only private messages are available. However, these are not displayed in the categories (i.e., in the view that is usual for all other information).
The already complex interface of Discourse thus becomes even more confusing with an additional layer of group and private messages.
I want to integrate this layer optionally into the category view.
There might be use cases to allow more than one group, at least, as long as group arithmetic is not implemented. ↩︎