In a discussion titled “Preventing further use of a category” under the Support category, Paul_King seeks a way to preserve an ‘archive’ category for visibility and replies but prevent new topic creation. He tried disabling ‘create’ permissions but saw no effect. supermathie clarifies that the desired setup — allowing ‘see’ and ‘reply’ but not ‘create’ — should work, cautioning that admin users bypass such restrictions 4. Paul confirms he was testing as an admin, which explains the issue 5. mattdm notes that this can lead to accidental bypasses by admins (and possibly moderators), referencing a feature request for “regular mode” for admins/moderators 6. supermathie agrees, comparing admin status to root rather than sudo. The thread ends with mattdm asking whether moderators or TL4 users are similarly exempt from such restrictions 8.
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 platform.
I want the category to exist and remain visible as an aid to those wanting to search those old discussions, or wanting to update an old discussion where this seems appropriate (so this not really a ‘pure’ archive), but I don’t want it used for new discussions (which is what keeps on happening)
I would have assumed when editing categories, that toggling off ‘create’ within a category would achieve the desired result of preventing further topic creation under that category, but it seems to make no difference.
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)
indeed