# User groups view: showing categories that belong to each group

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-groups-view-showing-categories-that-belong-to-each-group/27461
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 11, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-groups-view-showing-categories-that-belong-to-each-group/27461 "2015-04-11T21:19:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![terraboss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/terraboss/32/381157_2.png) [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-groups-view-showing-categories-that-belong-to-each-group/27461/1 "2015-04-11T21:19:14Z")

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I’m hosting a a fully closed internal discourse system with a lot of user groups and each of them belongs to a single / multiple categories. My problem is, that I don’t wanna lose the overview.

I’d like to see in my user groups settings / admin panel which user group has access into which category. With more than 30 categories, it sometimes get’s hard to recognize all of them.

1. Does anyone has a similar problem?

- Is there a spesific reason why admins couldn’t get an recursive overview?
- Would it be hard to implement this feature?

Thank you all in advance,  
Markus

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-groups-view-showing-categories-that-belong-to-each-group/27461/2 "2015-04-12T01:27:03Z")

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Can you visually mock up what you are proposing?

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### Author: ![terraboss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/terraboss/32/381157_2.png) [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-groups-view-showing-categories-that-belong-to-each-group/27461/3 "2015-04-12T10:13:19Z")

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##Maybe this way:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/e/2e7f7c23b7700dec24ff00d3eecfaf577c06c9cf.png)

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### Author: ![trudat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/trudat/32/104354_2.png) [@trudat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/trudat)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-groups-view-showing-categories-that-belong-to-each-group/27461/4 "2015-07-15T21:12:45Z")

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I really like this idea!

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### Author: ![terraboss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/terraboss/32/381157_2.png) [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-groups-view-showing-categories-that-belong-to-each-group/27461/5 "2015-07-15T23:12:36Z")

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Here is another, I guess more commonly used, practice of setting up privileges:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/d/bd6129881384186142e275980037a2ce7d9ecf6c.png)

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-groups-view-showing-categories-that-belong-to-each-group/27461/6 "2025-12-04T11:35:51Z")

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