ACL Issues —Only Inherited Permissions?
By Kevin Burk on Wednesday, 17 January 2018
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Having addressed the empty forums issue so I can see everything from the front page (I was using containers to segregate the categories with sub-forums) I've encountered another problem.

I don't want anyone to be able to post anything in the top-level category — all posts need to go in the appropriate sub-category. But when I restrict creating/replying permissions for the top-level category (which is no longer a container and has a single post so it shows up on the forum menu page), it prevents users from posting in sub-categories as well.

I suspect I have to re-submit this as a feature request? Because I'm guessing you can only take away permissions in the hierarchy of sub-categories; you can't grant additional permissions that aren't available to the parent category?
Hi Kevin,

The only way to allow users to post to subcategories but not in the parent category is by setting the parent category as a container.

Actually what is the reason you no longer set the parent categories as container?
Having addressed the empty forums issue so I can see everything from the front page (I was using containers to segregate the categories with sub-forums)
I'm not really understanding what you mean by empty forums. Perhaps you can elaborate more?
Raymond
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Wednesday, 17 January 2018 13:33
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When I had the parent categories set as containers, they did not display on the Forum menu layout and the only way to see the classrooms was to go to the Categories menu.

The only way to get them to display at all on the front end was to select the "show categories with empty posts" option, but while that does show the categories I want to show on the Forum menu, it also makes a very big deal that there are no posts in those categories which I don't like.

There doesn't seem to be a good solution to this at the moment. It's not a big deal — but until my students get familiar with the forums, they may post in the wrong places. That's what I was trying to avoid.
Kevin Burk
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Wednesday, 17 January 2018 21:26
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Hey Kevin,

I see. Thanks for voicing out your concerns.
but while that does show the categories I want to show on the Forum menu, it also makes a very big deal that there are no posts in those categories which I don't like.
You mentioned having a single post in the parent category so it shows up in forums view.

But if you set the parent categories to be containers(to prevent new discussion creation) and at the same time, you do not want to the category to appear empty, what about creating a single post in one of it's subcategories?

Doing so will not make the category appear empty in the forums page(http://take.ms/hQio4).
Raymond
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Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:40
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That won't work, either. There will be MANY posts in the sub forums. I don't want the sub forums to show in the forum view.

It really is an ACL issue and it's very specific to my needs (and not all that important).

I've got the forum looking how I want it to look, and once students get familiar with it, posting in the wrong place won't be an issue.
Kevin Burk
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Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:48
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Hey Kevin,
There will be MANY posts in the sub forums. I don't want the sub forums to show in the forum view.
Oh the subcategories will not show on the forums page as separate containers. But their posts will show under the parent category container for example: http://take.ms/ca9sV
Raymond
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Thursday, 18 January 2018 11:15
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