I noticed my moderators don’t have access to the Staff category. I just installed a fresh discourse locally to test it and it still happens. I think it’s because my Discourse got installed in German and my Staff group is actually called Team. So I ran this in console: staff = Category.find_by(id: SiteSetting.staff_category_id) staff.group_names = [Group[:staff].name] staff.save I hope this doesn’t break anything?

I just noticed I have the same issue with the Lounge category. I think the group_names=(names) method of the Category model should find the correct name of the group? Or change the fixtures?

Yes, it looks like we localise the group names here: app/models/group.rb cbb8f6f0f group.id = id group.save! end # don't allow shoddy localization to break this localized_name = I18n.t("groups.default_names.#{name}").downcase validator = UsernameValidator.new(localized_name) if !Group.where("LOWER(name) = ?", localized_name).exists? && validator.valid_format? group.name = localized_name end # the everyone group is special, it can include non-users so there is no # way to have the membership in a table case name when :everyone group.visibility_level = Group.visibility_levels[:owners] group.save! return group when :moderators But then set category permissions using the unlocalised group name here: db/fixtures/502_staff_category.rb cbb8f6f0f unless Rails.env.test? staff = Category.find_by(id: SiteSetting.staff_category_id) if staff && !staff.group_ids.include?(Group[:staff].id) # Add permissions and a description to the Staff category. Category.transaction do staff.group_names = ['staff'] unless staff.save puts staff.errors.full_messages raise "Failed to set permissions on the Staff category!" end if staff.topic_id.nil? creator = PostCreator.new(Discourse.system_user, raw: I18n.t('staff_category_description'), title: I18n.t('category.topic_prefix', category: staff.name), category: staff.name, I think this could do with some improvement

Oh dear, I didn’t realize we were using the string names rather than the numeric codes. I wonder why we haven’t seen more complaints about this for Discourse instances in other languages?

I’ve seen the same (or similar?) bug running Discourse in Czech and thought it was a random glitch related just to a single user. It went away after I temporarily turned the moderator into an admin and back IIRC, so I did not bother reporting it.

I think I have the same issue here..? I have a Norwegian install - and when I’m logged into my admin account, I can’t access the staff category. I see it in “All categories”, but when I click it it just keeps loading. I made a test user and made it moderator - then that user got access.

Moderators don't have access to Staff category

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 5, 2018, 9:11pm 2

Hmm, no, permissions aren’t set based on the text name of the category.

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