Community Suggestion: Subscriber Group Inheritance for Categories
Subscriber Group Inheritance for Categories
New Feature Addition · Access management (subscribers/authors) · Created by Demongrey
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently, categories and articles can both be restricted to specific subscriber groups, but the permissions must be configured separately for each article.
Managing dozens or hundreds of articles requires repetitive configuration, and it is easy to accidentally forget to apply the correct permissions to an article.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
I propose adding an optional setting that allows articles to inherit the subscriber group permissions from the category they are in.
This would:
Current score
22/300 Votes · +5702 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by MPvDgamer
on 2026-06-28 23:39 -
+300
by ISpeakDragonese
on 2026-06-27 16:41 -
+100
by Elb Tenebris
on 2026-06-25 20:30 -
+300
by Calithrae
on 2026-06-24 21:26 -
+300
by EleKTriiK
on 2026-06-24 00:34 -
+100
by TheBlackVolk
on 2026-06-19 16:36 -
+300
by Worldwildbuilder
on 2026-06-18 22:38 -
+300
by Blue Fairy 74
on 2026-06-18 07:39 -
+1
by Those2Nerds
on 2026-06-16 19:24Upvoting because we could use bulk editing for articles. However! Permission inheritance can make it harder to track who has permission to what, harder to have exceptions to the rule, harder to organize, and can overall be a confusing mess. Does enabling inheritance override the permissions on the articles themselves? What about sub-categories and those articles? What happens when you disable inheritance, are inherited permissions removed or are they added explicitly? What about when you move articles or sub-categories around? If you forget which categories have which permissions, you could inadvertently lock people out of an article or give access to the wrong group. Bulk permission changes would be a simpler and more flexible solution than inheritance. Maybe a way to copy permissions from one category/article to a selection of others, or to apply category permissions to all currently-contained articles without setting an ongoing precedent or enforcement rule. Signed, someone who works in access management.
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+300
by ss2020
on 2026-06-16 17:20 -
+300
by Buzzard
on 2026-06-16 14:12 -
+300
by Nightone
on 2026-06-15 20:28 -
+300
by eberg
on 2026-06-15 20:08 -
+300
by Kydra_Hunter
on 2026-06-15 18:50 -
+100
by Michael Chandra
on 2026-06-15 18:48 -
+300
by JoellaKay
on 2026-06-15 18:18 -
+300
by StillnessandSilence
on 2026-06-15 17:20 -
+300
by Keon Croucher
on 2026-06-15 17:17 -
+300
by kaixabu
on 2026-06-15 17:15 -
+300
by Razhea
on 2026-06-15 16:57Ooh, I love this idea. It would be great to be able to more easily track and make changes to the visibility of entire groups of articles instead of dredging through one at a time.
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+300
by Nulcheck
on 2026-06-15 16:54 -
+1
by graiffe
on 2026-06-15 16:52 -
+300
by Demongrey
on 2026-06-15 16:31
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