# Moderators don't have access to Staff category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [5 באוקטובר, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839 "2018-10-05T18:33:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@bokos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bokos)
#### Post date: [5 באוקטובר, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839/1 "2018-10-05T18:33:12Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5 באוקטובר, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839/2 "2018-10-05T21:11:21Z")
Hmm, no, permissions aren’t set based on the text name of the category.
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### Author:  [@bokos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bokos)
#### Post date: [5 באוקטובר, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839/3 "2018-10-05T21:41:37Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [5 באוקטובר, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839/4 "2018-10-05T22:14:04Z")
Yes, it looks like we localise the group names here:
>
But then set category permissions using the unlocalised group name here:
>
I think this could do with some improvement
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6 באוקטובר, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839/5 "2018-10-06T05:07:00Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@zoul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zoul)
#### Post date: [6 באוקטובר, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839/6 "2018-10-06T06:46:23Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [23 ביוני, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839/7 "2021-06-23T16:47:43Z")
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### Author:  [@ErlendMS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ErlendMS)
#### Post date: [20 בינואר, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-dont-have-access-to-staff-category/98839/8 "2024-01-20T10:42:47Z")
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.