Private group specifications on Discourse

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Hi,

In a project, we are using private groups with SSO feature. We are using Wordpress as SSO provider. Our all user groups are private and each group can display a separate category. These groups and categories are completely independent of each other.

Also, we are using automatically join group feature for joining these groups and it works correctly.: “Users who register with an email domain that exactly matches one in this list will be automatically added to this group”

Discourse’s default user groups specifications are is not offering enough options at this time for that.

What we need:

  1. Users can only see members in their group and send messages.
  2. Users can only view public profiles of members in their group.
  3. Users can only see members in their own group in user list. (not disable user directory, just customize that for user groups.)

What can we do? I am happy to hear your suggestions.

Thanks.

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Not much. Your easy options are to either turn off user profiles so that no one can see any profiles or allow people to see all of them.

A plugin could probably override the user list or hide users who are not in the same primary group as the user looking. If it would be OK for the other users to be in the JSON load, it might be possible for a theme component to hide users that don’t match the user’s group.

This is something that comes up from time to time.

If you really want people not to see anyone else your best bet is a separate forum for each group. You could do it with multisite, so there’s still be only a single container.

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