HorizonUsing a verification system?
Keep temporary channels hidden from members who aren't verified yet.
Many servers hide their voice channels until members get a role, for example @Verified. Horizon works with this, you just have to tell it which roles are allowed in.
Recommended: Access Roles
1. Category permissions
In Discord, open the settings of the category your Creator Channel is in and set these permissions:
| Role | View Channel | Connect |
|---|---|---|
@everyone | Deny | |
| Your verified role(s) | Allow | Allow |
| Horizon | Allow | Allow |
Why Horizon needs its own allow
Horizon is part of @everyone too, so the deny applies to it as well. Without its own allow, Horizon can't create channels in the category and the member gets a DM listing the missing permissions. If the category denies other permissions for @everyone, allow those for Horizon too.
2. Access Tab
Open the Dashboard, select your server, pick the Creator Channel and go to the Access Tab:
- Add every verified role under Access Roles.
- Set Visibility for non-role members to Hidden from others.
Result
- Only members with one of the Access Roles can see and join temporary channels.
/lock,/hideand the panel buttons apply to the Access Roles, so owners can still lock verified members out.- Members an owner lets in with
/trustor/inviteusercan join even if they aren't verified. Turn off Trust / Untrust and Invite in the Feature Tab if you don't want that. - Immune Roles can always see and join while Apply permission override to immune roles is on.
Alternative: Inherit @everyone restrictions
Use this if your category already allows many roles and you don't want to add them all as Access Roles.
- Set up the category permissions as above.
- In the Basics Tab, set Permission Sync to From category. Use From generator if the permissions are set on the Creator Channel instead.
- Turn on Inherit @everyone restrictions.
- Leave Access Roles empty.
Every new channel gets the category's role permissions and keeps the @everyone deny. Without the toggle, Default Visibility: Public gives @everyone View Channel and Connect on every new channel, which makes it visible to unverified members.
/unlock and /show put @everyone back to what the category or Creator Channel says, so an owner can't open a channel to unverified members.
Lock and hide are limited here
/hide can't hide a channel from members whose role allows View Channel, and /lock only keeps them out if their role doesn't allow Connect in the category. If owners should be able to lock or hide their channel from verified members, use Access Roles.
What each setting does
@everyone on a new channel
| Setup | Default Visibility | Inherit off | Inherit on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access Roles with Hidden from others | Any | Deny View | Deny View |
| No Access Roles, or Visible to everyone | Public | Allow View and Connect | Nothing added |
| No Access Roles, or Visible to everyone | Locked | Allow View, deny Connect | Deny Connect |
| No Access Roles, or Visible to everyone | Hidden | Deny View and Connect | Deny View and Connect |
With Permission Sync on, the new channel starts with the @everyone permissions of the category or Creator Channel, and the values above are applied on top. With Don't sync, it starts empty and Inherit @everyone restrictions isn't available.
Settings
| Setting | Tab | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Access Roles | Access | Each role gets View Channel and Connect on every new channel, added to its category permissions when syncing from the category. /lock, /hide and saved profiles change these roles instead of @everyone. Default Visibility doesn't apply to them. |
| Visibility for non-role members | Access | Hidden from others: @everyone can't see the channel. Visible to everyone: @everyone follows Default Visibility. Only shown while Access Roles are set. |
| Default Visibility | Basics | Applies to @everyone only, see the table above. A member's saved profile can replace it with its own locked or hidden state. |
| Permission Sync | Basics | From category: copies the category's role and member permissions. From generator: copies the Creator Channel's role permissions. Both use the source's @everyone permissions as the starting point. Don't sync: copies nothing. |
| Inherit @everyone restrictions | Basics | Horizon never gives @everyone extra access and only adds denies. /unlock and /show reset @everyone to the source. Needs Permission Sync. |
| Immune Roles | Access | Members with these roles bypass lock, hide and block. With Apply permission override to immune roles on, the roles also get View Channel and Connect on every channel. When off, they keep what Permission Sync copied. |
| Trust / Untrust, Invite | Features | Gives one member View Channel and Connect, verified or not. |
| Block / Unblock | Features | Denies Connect for one member, and View Channel too while Block Hides Channel is on. |
The channel owner always gets View Channel, Connect and Speak, plus the Additional Owner Permissions from the Feature Tab. Horizon gives itself View Channel, Connect, Manage Channel and Move Members.