# Assign Posts as admin user to a moderator
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** assign
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443 "2020-04-27T12:14:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Matze](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matze)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/1 "2020-04-27T12:14:48Z")
I had no luck assigning a topic as an admin user to a user who is a moderator.
Did i again overlook some configuration options? 😉
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/2 "2020-04-27T12:39:02Z")
Hello,
Is this turned on? `Enable the assign plugin`
If so:
1. 
**Press assign at the bottom of a topic or private message.**
* * *
1. 
**See writing in red.**
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### Author:  [@Matze](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matze)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/3 "2020-04-27T12:52:44Z")
Hello,
thank you for your fast response.
Yes the plugin assign is activated, and it works for assigning posts as moderator to another moderator.
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/4 "2020-04-27T13:22:50Z")
Has any other staff been @mentioned? Maybe they have and you have to unassigned them first looking at your settings.
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### Author:  [@Matze](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matze)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/5 "2020-04-27T13:46:24Z")
That’s the topic: [Threema Work für andere Mitarbeiter an Schulen - Messenger: Threema Work - forum.bildungbw.de](https://forum.bildungbw.de/t/moegliche-benutzer/311)
I think no staff is mentioned and no one is assigned.
When I switch to a mod user and try to assign someone, I get a dropdown list showing the user:
When I try that using the admin user, this doesn’t appear:
Perhaps it’s a bug…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/6 "2020-04-28T04:58:42Z")
This has always worked for us, so I’m not sure what is wrong. All staff can be assigned. (staff = admins, moderators).
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/7 "2020-04-28T12:55:42Z")
Thanks @Matze, I managed to track down the source of this issue. We were only searching ‘members of groups which you are also a member of’. So that works for ‘staff’ (like we have it here on meta), but it didn’t work for the separate ‘admins’ and ‘moderators’ groups.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-assign/commit/07c13651c6b5975f9f20d4969faf55c3f5d7a635](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-assign/commit/07c13651c6b5975f9f20d4969faf55c3f5d7a635)
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### Author:  [@Matze](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matze)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/8 "2020-04-28T13:05:03Z")
Thank you for your fast and great support.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assign-posts-as-admin-user-to-a-moderator/149443/9 "2020-04-29T17:00:14Z")
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