Category moderators unable to set topic timer

[putty (Derek Putnam)]

We are trying to give category moderators the ability to schedule topic timers, but they can’t see it for some reason.

This Discourse topic made me think that category moderator privileges would be sufficient for this, but I’m not sure:

Control who can adjust Topic Timer?

You can achieve this by enabling the enable_category_group_moderation site setting and adding these TL4 non-staff users to your designated group.You can then grant these users extra moderation abilities by specifying the designated group under the Moderation section of the category settings. Please note that this grants the users permission to also add these auto-delete timers. [Screenshot 2023-11-28 at 3.40.50 PM] [Screenshot 2023-11-28 at 3.40.19 PM]

As soon as we assigned these users TL4 they could see the topic timer. Is this intended?

Our only concern with granting these users TL4 is that they have some permissions that aren’t able to be adjusted—namely being able to see content that was flagged and hidden. Is there a middle ground here?

[ondrej]

Hi Putty

@putty

As soon as we assigned these users TL4 they could see the topic timer. Is this intended?

This does seem to be expected behaviour. If you look at the Trust Level Permissions Reference guide you’ll see a lot of user actions are TL (trust level) dependant including those of category moderators.

Here is the column for category moderators:

[Arkshine]

@putty

Is this intended?

From what I see in the code, these actions access

are hardcoded to be only available for staff and leader (TL4).

I don’t see any way to modify this behavior (though it’s possible to do something with a TC).
I agree that it would be nice to have better granular control here.