# Nesting User Groups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/nesting-user-groups/338000
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** groups
**Created:** [November 24, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nesting-user-groups/338000 "2024-11-24T01:27:25Z")
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### Author: ![martyn\_thomas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martyn_thomas/32/344874_2.png) [@martyn\_thomas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martyn_thomas)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nesting-user-groups/338000/1 "2024-11-24T01:27:25Z")

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Our Discourse has a lot of User Groups to help manage who controls which categories on the forum. For example we have ‘Discussion Admins’, ‘Announcement Admins’ etc.

However sometimes we want to create a category which all Admins have access to, currently we have to list ever Admin group in the security section, and make sure we update the security each time we create a new Admin group…it gets messy.

Is it possible to nest groups - for example, make a group called ‘Admins’, which contains ‘Discussion Admins’, ‘Announcement Admins’ groups. We can then assign the ‘Admins’ group in the security of categories without the risk of missing out one of the groups.

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### Author: ![thoka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thoka/32/115652_2.png) [@thoka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thoka)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2024, 8:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nesting-user-groups/338000/2 "2024-11-24T08:02:42Z")

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Unfortunately, not:

> [@Hierarchical group membership (groups inside groups)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hierarchical-group-membership-groups-inside-groups/182263/2):
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> I don’t think we have plans to implement full hierarchical group membership resolution.

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### Author: ![martyn\_thomas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martyn_thomas/32/344874_2.png) [@martyn\_thomas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martyn_thomas)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nesting-user-groups/338000/3 "2024-11-24T12:38:55Z")

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Damn! Thanks for finding the answer (my searching failed me!)

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nesting-user-groups/338000/4 "2024-12-24T12:39:50Z")

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