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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נושא		תגובות	צפיות
Subcategories do not inherit permissions from parent category Feature	25	5943	29 בנובמבר,‏ 2021
Inheritance of access rights for subcategories broken Feature	4	1238	3 באוגוסט,‏ 2016
Maincategory with "Subcategory permissions cannot be less restrictive than parent's" error Support	11	790	8 במרץ,‏ 2019
Subcategory permissions cannot be less restrictive than parent's Support	11	1315	2 ביוני,‏ 2019
Related category permissions Theme component	2	259	20 בנובמבר,‏ 2024

Subcategory does not inherit security settings

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