Bug Show and give access to subcategory while hide (parent) category

Hi,

playing with joomla ACL and Kunena Category Parameters I don't find the solution. How can I give access to an sub-category while the user does not see and have access to it's parent category.

Regards,
Thomas

Seems to be impossible for Kunena to hide parent category?

I do not know any forum anywhere in the world that shows only sub-categories of a hidden parent category. This question doesn't seem logical to me.

The facility to show sub-categories of a hidden (i.e. unpublished) parent category does not exist in Kunena as far as I am aware. If the means do not exist to do this, this is not a support question because you are asking for Kunena to do something that Kunena was not designed to do. If the facility to do this does exist (and I don't how how it's possible) then this is still not a support question because you are asking a "how to" question. "How to" questions do not belong in the support category; then belong in the "general questions" category.

If you can tell us why you need to organise your forum in the way that you have described then, perhaps, someone may be able to suggest an approach that will address your novel idea.

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Hello sozzled,

thank your for yor reply!

What I want is to discuss the developement of a clients website in a category "developement" of his forum. This category has superadmin access (for him and me). In the subcategory "SEO" I want the discussion between my client, the SEO-Specialist and me. The SEO-guy shall see the category "SEO", but neither the threats in the parent category "developement" nor the category. Is this possible?

Regards,
Thomas

In the way that you have described how you want to set things up, no this is not possible. It is, however, possible to have exclusive private or internal discussions for certain classes in certain categories.

As I understand, you want your category hierarchy to look like this

/"Private" discussions about developing a client's website
/.../"Private" discussions about SEO issues
/.../.../"Public" discussions about SEO issues

This is what I would recommend instead:

/"Private" discussions about developing a client's website
/.../"Private" discussions about SEO issues
/"Public" discussions about developing a client's website
/.../"Public" discussions about SEO issues

Therefore, the answer to your question "is this possible" requires you to reorganise your category hierarchy in a slightly different way.

Actually older versions of Kunena allowed this, but it was problematic feature as it was many times misused and people were wondering why someone who shouldn't see the category is seeing it.

Thanks Matias for discussing!

I can't understand the problem someone seeing a category without permission, Kunena uses Joomla ACL combining usergroups and access levels in a great way.
From my point of view categories and aubcategories design could be easier with the possibility to hide parent categories. E.g. different departements in a concern with a common management which can be administrated in the same parent category with discret subcategories, discret workgroups in a common project, ...

Regards,
Thomas

Actually I ran into similar issue by a bug in GroupJive. I think that the best way to deal with this would allow users to see upper level categories but not to have read access to their content. So basically the upper category would contain only a list of child categories and no topics..

Is this possible in Kunena at the moment?

sozzled wrote: In the way that you have described how you want to set things up, no this is not possible.

But, let's take a more practical example. As you say, you might want to have an area set aside in your forum for "common management" issues, but you might also want to have "sub-categories" set aside for discussing issues relating to different workgroups in the organisation and not allow people in one workgroup to have access to discussions taking place in a different workgroup. This is easily accomplished in Kunena.

What you would do in this scenario is create a Kunena section called "common management" and then place categories below that for "workgroup 1", "workgroup 2", etc. As you know, you cannot post topics in a section. In essence, this is what Matias was probably suggesting.