Back-end allows moderators to use merge/move posts to private message, but front-end does not

techAPJ · October 5, 2020, 7:16am

The decision to not show “move to new PM” option for moderators was made explicitly in:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dc2776bcddc07e69e5a4ab92526f6238f3a5ccd7

This is because the moderators do not have permission to see PMs and the relevant code will fail at:

app/models/post_mover.rb

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            topic
          end
          
          private
          
          def update_topic_excerpt(topic)
            topic.update_excerpt(topic.first_post.excerpt_for_topic)
          end
          
          def move_posts_to(topic)
            Guardian.new(user).ensure_can_see! topic
            @destination_topic = topic
          
            moving_all_posts = (@original_topic.posts.pluck(:id).sort == @post_ids.sort)
          
            create_temp_table
            delete_invalid_post_timings
            move_each_post
            notify_users_that_posts_have_moved
            update_statistics
            update_user_actions

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Back-end allows moderators to use merge/move posts to private message, but front-end does not

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