# Private, group-internal events **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-group-internal-events/412794 **Category:** Bug **Tags:** events **Created:** [September 18, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-group-internal-events/412794 "2026-09-18T18:06:07Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![Thomas\_Rother](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thomas_rother/32/423597_2.png) [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother) #### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-group-internal-events/412794/1 "2026-09-18T18:06:07Z")
Currently, event entries are always part of the calendar UI element which can be added to a category. There is no way to restrict an event to a special user group. If you have a multi-community Discourse setup, all communities see all the events of all the other communities. If you display the Discourse events externally on a website through an API call like [`https://example.discourse.org/discourse-post-event/events.ics?user_api_key=[xxxxx]`](https://example.discourse.org/discourse-post-event/events.ics?user_api_key=%5Bxxxxx%5D) it will display ALL events. There should be an option to create “internal” events that are only displayed within a user group. These events should not be readable with the “general” ICS API request. Instead they should only be available either with a special, additional “group API key” or some other kind of save limitations. The use case is a selection between “public” events and events that are “private” and only visible and editable within a special user group. ℹ Correction: it looks as if created events within a group do already honour the group permissions on the calendar displayed inside the group-restricted categories. The only thing missing is some kind of restriction for the API calls through “[`https://example.discourse.org/discourse-post-event/events.ics?user_api_key=[xxxxx]`](https://example.discourse.org/discourse-post-event/events.ics?user_api_key=%5Bxxxxx%5D)” --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-group-internal-events/412794)._