Category & Channel Permissions

Channel or category permissions are essential for maintaining control and privacy within your server. Here are a few reasons why you might need to utilize channel or category permissions:

• Privacy and security Certain discussions or content may require a higher level of privacy and security. By setting channel or category permissions, you can restrict access to specific roles or individuals who need to be part of those conversations, ensuring that sensitive information remains confidential.

• Organizational structure If your server has different teams, groups, or games, you may want to create separate channels or categories for each of them. Channel or category permissions allow you to control who can access and participate in those areas, ensuring that discussions and content remain relevant to the respective groups.

• Moderation and administration Channel or category permissions enable you to designate specific roles or individuals with moderation or administrative responsibilities. This allows you to grant certain privileges, such as managing messages, deleting content, or controlling permissions, to those trusted members who help lead and manage your server effectively.

• Content management With channel or category permissions, you can control who creates, edits, or deletes content within specific channels or categories. This helps maintain the organization and integrity of your server, preventing unauthorized modifications or disruptions.

Utilizing channel or category permissions gives you greater flexibility and control over your server's structure, privacy, and content management. It ensures that discussions and interactions are appropriately managed and accessible only to the intended audience, creating a more secure and tailored experience for your community.

• To get started, we recommend you create a category first and then add any channels within it. This allows the channels to inherit the permissions set for the category.
• By default, categories and channels grant membership access to the Member role. However, you can add additional roles to customize the permissions as needed. This allows you to restrict access to specific roles, ensuring that only authorized individuals have permission to view and participate in the category or its channels.
• It's important to note that category and channel permissions take precedence over server-wide permissions. This means that the permissions set at the category or channel level will override the general server permissions, providing you with greater control and flexibility.
• By following these steps, you can create a private leader/management category with customized permissions, allowing you to manage access and privacy within your server effectively.

Changing permissions

You can assign permissions to your category or channel in the category/channel settings by clicking the cog icon.

• Navigate to the Permissions section. Add the roles or members you wish to have access to this category.

• Search or click the roles to add them.

• In this example, we only want the Captain and Admin roles to have all permissions, so we have used the Enable all button as a quick shortcut.

Note: You need to add all roles for everyone, including admins depending on how you have set up your server, or you may lock those roles out of the channels.

• We have used the Disable all button to deny all permissions and access for all other roles for this category.

• Click the Save changes button when you are finished.
• Now create a new channel within the same category by clicking the + button
• Select the type of channel you want. We have used a chat channel here.

• To access channel settings, click the cog icon. Channels created under a category will automatically inherit category permissions, eliminating the need to set them individually for each channel.

Permissions play a crucial role in managing access and controlling actions within your server. Once you have configured the desired permissions, it's important to remember to click the "Save" button to apply and save your changes.