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 sec…

Unfortunately, not: [image] Hierarchical group membership (groups inside groups) I don’t think we have plans to implement full hierarchical group membership resolution.

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

Nesting User Groups

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thoka (Thomas Kalka) November 24, 2024, 8:02am 2

Unfortunately, not:

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Nesting User Groups

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