Parent categories restricted, but child categories unrestricted?

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Parent categories restricted, but child categories unrestricted?

Profamii is seeking a way to replicate a category setup similar to PHPBB, MyBB, and XenForo in Discourse, where a category contains child forums where users can post. Currently, Discourse categories are where users post, and child categories are not the same as child forums.

According to Cozdabuch, this feature is not on the roadmap and would require extensive redevelopment of the homepage.

Profamii is looking for a workaround to achieve this in the meantime. pfaffman suggests unlisting the category description topics to prevent them from being listed.

Profamii shares a screenshot of the unwanted topic list in the parent category. pfaffman understands that Profamii wants to hide this list.

Profamii is looking for a way to hide the topic list in the parent category, even after unlisting it. pfaffman mistakenly suggests creating topics in the parent category, but Profamii clarifies that the parent category should not have any posts.

Profamii is still seeking ideas on how to achieve this. Tim_Jefferies shares that on their instance, clicking on the parent category shows posts from the child categories, but this is not the desired behavior for Profamii.

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Hi,

If anyone’s familiar with PHPBB, MyBB, XenForo, etc these forum software have their category setup differently. You would create a category and then create child forums, and in these forums is where posts can be made. Unlike Discourse where a category is where users post, yes you can create child categories but this is not what I’m looking for.

Is it possible to do something like this with Discourse? Create a category and create child forums in which users can post? I know I’m not explaining this in the best way but I hope the screenshot I provided will make sense.

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PS: I know I can simply create a category and then child categories and deny permission for people to post in the parent category but then there will be this annoying topic list that I can’t do anything about.

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EDIT: If I’m still not making sense, please let me know and I’ll try to explain again. Any help would be much appreciated. :slight_smile:

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I’ve asked. Doesn’t seem to be on the roadmap. Extensive redev of homepage would be required

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Well, is there any sort of workaround to be able to achieve this or something similar in the mean time?

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What does this mean?

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This will be shown in the parent category, which I don’t like/want.

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You want to unlist the category description topics so that they aren’t listed?

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Sure, let’s try it and see how it looks, how could do we do that?

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Navigate to the topic. Click the wrench and choose unlisted.

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I guess this could work for now. Is there any way to hide this?

10

Create some topics in that category?

EDIT: Ooops. Sorry. I hadn’t realized that was the parent category. Sometimes, free advice is worth what you pay for it!

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I just told you that the parent category won’t have any posts in it as I’m trying to replicate a category setup similar to what MyBB and others use. I don’t want the parent category to have any posts (if you read my first post, you’ll understand better.)

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Anyone got ideas on how to do this?

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On my instance if I click on the parent category, it shows posts from the child categories, kind of like an overview.