Staff who can access user info including emails

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The discussion revolves around creating two distinct staff groups with different access levels in a Discourse forum. Jaskaran wants a ‘Staff’ group with full moderator/admin permissions but without email access, and a ‘Top Employee’ group with email access, while keeping admins and moderators unchanged. Moin suggests using existing moderator/admin roles and enabling the ‘moderators view emails’ site setting, which can be found in the admin area as explained. Jagster warns against creating custom groups without proper security considerations, noting that the out-of-the-box system doesn’t support this directly and might require a plugin. Heliosurge questions the need for two separate staff groups with the same powers, suggesting that if full permissions are needed, a moderator role is sufficient, though caution is advised. pfaffman points to trust level 4 permissions as a reference for what moderators can do.

1

i want to have one group on my site which have all the permission a staff has. and addition to this it can user info including emails.

Any help would be appreciated

2

Why don’t you grant them moderator/admin rights if you want them to be able to do everything moderators/admins can do? You can enable moderators view emails to give access to email addresses.

3

Then it is someone, who is an admin. And that is really bad way, unless that someone is actual admin. Or at least a moderator.

So, no just building an extra group. Out of the box anyway. Perhaps you can code a plugin that changes how security of Discourse is builded.

4

Is there a reason you want to have 2 seperate staff groups with the same “staff powers”?

If they need staff permissions make them a mod as per @Moin’s recommendation. Just be careful of course who you make a full mod

5

I want one profile staff - which can not access the user email (will name as Employee)
I want another profile -which can access the User email (will name as top employee)

Admin and moderator should remain as it is

pls tell me how to enable moderators view emails

6

It’s a site setting in the admin area of your forum. You can find it by visiting
YOUR_FORUM/admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=moderators%20view%20emails%20

7

You can look at what trust level 4 can do