# Permissions for subcategories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-for-subcategories/48067
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2016 年 8 月 1 日午前 11:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-for-subcategories/48067 "2016-08-01T11:55:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![thorbenegberts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thorbenegberts/32/120119_2.png) [@thorbenegberts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thorbenegberts)
#### Post date: [2016 年 8 月 1 日午前 11:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-for-subcategories/48067/1 "2016-08-01T11:55:18Z")

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Hi there,

I wonder if this is a bug or feature 🙂

Let’s assume I’ve got user group **A** and group **B**.

We’ve got an internal category with some subcategories. Both the category and its subcategories are only visible to group **A**.

Now I create a new subcategory that is visible to both **A** and **B**. Members of group **B** now get this errors as they navigate to this category (`/c/<categoryname>/`):

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/1/81ab115e1b528e561fd725248e6f542922df5eb8.png)

However, they are able to view topics in this subcategory if they navigate there directly (via link). This error occurs only in the topic list.

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016 年 8 月 1 日午後 12:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-for-subcategories/48067/2 "2016-08-01T12:12:38Z")

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I think you are referring to this?  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-category-more-permissive-than-parent-category-problem/22793](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-category-more-permissive-than-parent-category-problem/22793)

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### Author: ![thorbenegberts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thorbenegberts/32/120119_2.png) [@thorbenegberts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thorbenegberts)
#### Post date: [2016 年 8 月 1 日午後 12:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-for-subcategories/48067/3 "2016-08-01T12:39:33Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> We don’t support creating subcategories with more open permissions than the parent category at this time.

I was looking for this statement. Thank you.

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2016 年 8 月 2 日午前 3:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-for-subcategories/48067/4 "2016-08-02T03:29:10Z")

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Note that only applies to the “see” permission - you can still restrict post creation in the parent.