Re; Granular (admin) permissions

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In a discussion titled “Re; Granular (admin) permissions,” oddjobz seeks to delegate “Watched Words” maintenance to a moderator without granting full admin rights. Initially, ondrej clarifies that moderators should already have access, but oddjobz confirms the moderator cannot reach the section via the UI — the “Community” link is missing from the sidebar even when logged in as an admin. Screenshots show the absence of the expected navigation. ondrej provides step-by-step guidance to access “Watched Words” via the Admin panel, but oddjobz confirms the issue persists. The problem is later resolved via private message: the site setting admin sidebar enabled groups did not include the ‘moderators’ group, preventing visibility of the “Community” section for moderators ondrej. This highlights a configuration oversight rather than a bug, and underscores the need for proper group permissions in the admin sidebar to enable granular moderation access.

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Hi, I’d like to be able to delegate the maintenance of “Watched Words” to a specific moderator, rather than giving him full admin permission. I can’t seem to see if / how this can be done. Is it possible, or is it planned? Delegation of potentially high maintenance low-level admin seems like quite a desirable function (?)

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I’d be interested in same.

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Moderators can see/change watched words already without being a full on admin. Or am I misunderstanding?

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Oh dear .. it may be I’ve been mis-informed by a moderator (!) .. going to double check ..

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Ok, technically he was wrong, but there is an issue. If (as an admin) I grab the watched words URL and paste it into a browser logged in as a moderator, it will actually work.

However.

“Watched Words” does not appear to be available on the menus on the left hand side, and trying to go into “Customise” in Admin yields “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.” , so without the link (which I’m about to send him) he doesn’t seem able to “get” to the Watched words section.

Do I have something set-up wrong, should he be able to see this? (having “customise” generate an error make me feel something is broken…?)

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It should look like this under ‘community’

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Are you on the latest version of Discourse?

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I’m on 3.5-beta2-dev (yesterday). No “Community” link showing on the left (!)

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Apologies. I should have specified where that was.

Click the :wrench: Admin button in the sidebar

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Then find ‘community → watched words’

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As a moderator this should work. I have tested this as a moderator and it works fine for me.

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Ok, so I showed the previous screen specifically so you could see the “Awarded Moderator” badge, but being in the Admin section makes no difference, Community still isn’t there. Is it possible there is a setting somewhere that hides Community from moderators?

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Issue resolved in PM. Turns out the admin sidebar enabled groups site setting didn’t list the ‘moderators’ group.