# Não foi possível configurar permissões na categoria/subcategoria pai

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-set-up-permissions-on-parent-subcategory/112562>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [Março 26, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-set-up-permissions-on-parent-subcategory/112562 "2019-03-26T02:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astonj/32/215041_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [Abril 9, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-set-up-permissions-on-parent-subcategory/112562/5 "2019-04-09T17:32:03Z")

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> [@maja](#):
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> I improved error message so it’s clearer now which groups only have access to sub-category and should be added to parent category:

Ah that’s very helpful, thanks!

It appears I had a parent category for staff forums but the ‘staff’ group wasn’t able to ‘see’ it! I wasn’t actually using the staff group for the other sub-cats hence why it didn’t click. Thanks again Maja!

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