I have a discourse forum for support and knowledgebase for a particular set of customers. Changes in my company mean that there will now be a second set of customers that would require a similar forum/knowledgebase, but I want to keep them separate from the first. Is there a way to split the forum into “divisons” so to speak that I can still administer overall, but users only have access to one or the other etc.
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gordon_mrmoco wants to split a Discourse forum into separate divisions for two distinct sets of customers, while maintaining overall administrative control. He aims to restrict user access to their respective divisions. merefield suggests a potential solution, referencing a plugin he created that redirects users to a ‘home’ category based on their primary group and permissions. The plugin, discourse-category-home, demonstrates the feasibility of this approach, although it is no longer actively supported.
A little while back I wrote this plugin that would bring each set of users to a ‘home’ category when opening the forum:
https://github.com/merefield/discourse-category-home
If someone has a primary group registered and that is permissioned to a single category, it redirects to that category as home.
I don’t pro-actively support it, but it proves the concept is workable.