# Scheduled publishing renders topic unusable

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/scheduled-publishing-renders-topic-unusable/221950>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 25, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scheduled-publishing-renders-topic-unusable/221950 "2022-03-25T09:23:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 3:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scheduled-publishing-renders-topic-unusable/221950/7 "2022-04-06T03:10:11Z")

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This will be fixed in

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/16385>
>
> When a user views a topic that contains a topic timer to publish to a
> restricted… category, an error occurs on the client side because the user
> does not have access to information about the category.
> 
> This commit fixes it such that the topic timer is not shown to the user
> if the user does not have access to the category.

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