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

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.