Hi :slight_smile: I created category and on the Security tab changed permissions from everyone to our internal group. Later I created a subcategory inside. I did not change it’s security settings, i.e. it remains “accessible” by everyone; but of course they cant visit it because it’s parent catego…

That’s right. Security settings are not inherited by subcategories. You’ll need to adjust those permissions to match the parent if that’s what you want.

Yep, this is by design, and many topics over the matter https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=category%20inherit&expanded=true There is some discussion around adding some additional validation ensuring the child category meets the same security permissions as the parent though at Shouldn't a categor…

I believe it is counterintuitive. If you are disabling access to a book, you are disabling all pages, not just the cover. May be it should be something like this? On subcategory creation: copy security settings of the parent. On changing parent permissions: ask admin if he wants to recursivly ite…

Subcategory does not inherit security settings

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Subcategory does not inherit security settings

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