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Aurora: Hide places and content from lists, menus, and search

In the community, you can hide any place (board or category) or posts related to a board (Forum, Blog, Knowledge Base, Event, and Ideas) from lists, menus, and search. Doing so hides the places and content from appearing in your community structure but still keeps them available to members via direct link to the content. To prevent search results from boards being directly accessible, you’d need to make the board private.

Hide a place from appearing in lists, menus, and search

Let’s take an example where you want to hide a category from appearing in the community place widgets, place picker menus, and search results.

To hide a category:

  1. Open the Account menu and go to Settings > Community Structure.
  2. In Community Structure, click the category you want to hide.
  3. Go to Display Settings and toggle on Hide category in place widgets, place picker menus, and search.

Similarly, to hide a board, you can go to the specific board and toggle on this setting:

 

Hide content from appearing in a category, community content widgets, and search results

Let’s take an example where you want to hide discussions in a specific forum from appearing in a category, community content widgets, and search results.

To hide forum content:

  1. Open the Account menu and go to Settings > Community Structure.
  2. In Community Structure, click the forum you want to hide.
  3. Go to Display Settings and toggle on the Hide forum posts in content widgets and search.

Similarly, you can hide Blog posts, Knowledge Base articles, individual events, and individual ideas of the respective boards from appearing in the category, community content widgets, and search results.

Updated 5 months ago
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