Is there, or can there be, a way to keep the already assigned category associated with a discussion, but to prevent its further use going forward, except where an existing topic receives a reply? I have an ‘archive’ category that relates to discussions imported from a now defunct forum on another p…

Make sure you’re not testing as an admin user; you’ll bypass that restriction.

Sounds like you want to remove “create” permissions from the category but keep “see” and “reply”.

Hi, yes, that is exactly what I am trying to do, and exactly what (I think) I have tried (see screenshot just added in my original post - it may not have been showing yet when you replied)

Thank you! I was tearing my hair out!

[صورة] Michael Brown: Make sure you’re not testing as an admin user; you’ll bypass that restriction. This also means admin users can accidentally bypass the restriction. (Moderators, too?) *cough* Hey, by the way, for no particular reason, check out this RFE "Regular mode" for admins and mod…

:smiley: indeed [صورة] Any way for admin users to not be in admin mode etc? Feature Some kind of ‘sudo mode’ like Reddit, Confluence, Jira, etc. do? It’s something that would be nifty to have but we don’t support that at this time. How I would probably handl…

[صورة] Michael Brown: admin is very much like root, rather than a user with sudo What would happen for a moderator or TL4 user in this case?

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supermathie (Michael Brown) 16 مارس 2023، 4:39م 7

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المسؤول أشبه بالمستخدم الجذر (root) مقارنة بمستخدم لديه صلاحيات sudo

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