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[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

	Summary	Show hidden categories
	Repository	GitHub - literatecomputing/discourse-show-hidden-categories: Make a placeholder for categories a user can't see due to permissions · GitHub
	Install Guide	How to install a theme or theme component
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Adds a fake category to the category list, so it’ll display like a normal category. The URL points to the group page so the user can join or request to join the group for access.

NOTE: This is almost exactly what the well-known and well-supported Category Previews does, so you probably want to use that. I’ll consider just deleting this.

Settings

Category boxes

Normal categories

Description

This seems to solve a problem that people often ask for. How can I let people know that a permission-required category exists?

I made a similar component for a client, but for Reasons, it hard-coded their custom category display. I created this version that modifies the category list so that it gets displayed like any other category. I don’t know if this actually works, but it seems to. If you need it to do something different, PRs are welcome, or contact me directly if you have a budget.

It might make sense to link to add a URL parameter so that it could link to a subscription or topic as well.

The version I wrote for the client includes the Request to join button right on the page. This was a little easier and doesn’t clutter the category page with buttons.

[NateDhaliwal]

@pfaffman

PREVIEW_LINK

Will this be filled out, or did you forget to remove it .

[putty]

You have to request to join the group to view it. (Kidding)

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@NateDhaliwal

Will this be filled out, or did you forget to remove it .

Oops. Thanks.

@putty

You have to request to join the group to view it. (Kidding)

Good one!

[Moin]

So this is similar to Category Previews but also works for category boxes and offers more features?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@Moin

So this is similar to Category Previews

Oh. Darn. I thought I knew what Category Previews did, but I was wrong. I swear I’d just looked at it and it required that the category be visible and just mostly-hid the category. Maybe there is some other component that I found that I confused with category previews.

So, yeah. Probably makes more sense to use the well-known and well-supported Category Previews. I’ll update OP and, if I remember, the README.

@Moin

but also works for category boxes and offers more features?

Oh! Maybe it does have a reason to exist!? It’s possible that working with category boxes does give this a reason to exist. The only thing that I thought might be “better” about mine is that it does hide the previews from admins and group members as well as anonymous users.

Maybe I won’t delete it right away.

[Moin]

I had actually thought that the other component might refer to this in the future. Support for category boxes is, after all, a significant advantage.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Not what I would have expected! The thing that this would need, maybe, is a setting for an arbitrary URL instead of only linking to the group page as it does now.