# Trusted users cannot invite when must approve users admin setting enabled
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 17, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809 "2021-05-17T21:45:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/1 "2021-05-17T21:45:54Z")
I am testing this on 2.7.0.beta9 but I see no option for “invites” on the users profile page, although the tested users have trust level 2. Aside from that, the normal invites by moderation/admin works.
Did I miss some basic config needed to allow “user to user” invites?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/2 "2021-05-17T22:02:58Z")
Hi Thommie! Can you verify the `min trust level to allow invite` admin setting has not been changed from the default which is trust level 2?
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### Author:  [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/3 "2021-05-18T06:08:10Z")
Hi Tobias,
here are some screenshots:
- global discourse settings `min trust level to allow invite` ➡ standard
- view of the user profile of test user “lisa” ➡ trust level 2
- view of her permissions seen from the admin login
As far as I understand it, there should be a button “invites/einladungen” in the user profile …
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/4 "2021-05-18T14:06:51Z")
I’ve not seen this issue before. I suspect it has to do with some other admin setting you have changed, like `invite only` or `allow new registrations`.
This is not likely the cause, but did you rename your trust level groups?
Here’s how it looks on my site, with my interface language switched to German:
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### Author:  [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/5 "2021-05-18T15:03:13Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> invite only
Hi,
the trust levels have their standard names including the german UI localisation
(“vertrauensstufe”) _invite only_ is active and _allow new registrations_ too.
So it should be possible to invite people and let them self register their new accounts and the invitations from moderators/admins work fine. The only missing function is the invitation from normal users to other users outside of the community.
Is there some way how to export the overall settings from /admin/site\_settings/ ?
Maybe through some SQL query with the [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) plugin?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/6 "2021-05-18T15:08:02Z")
You could try the “Only show overridden” option the admin settings (top right corner) to see which ones you have overridden.
I am not entirely sure where your issue is coming from - so far the only thing I can think of is the German locale and different names for trust levels, but I don’t think that should cause this. 🤔
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### Author:  [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/7 "2021-05-18T15:17:24Z")
… haha, interesting side effect: I had
> must approve users _Staff must approve all new user accounts before they are allowed to access the site._
If I reset this parameter to the standard (without staff approval), it works:
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/8 "2021-05-18T15:29:57Z")
Well then, there it is! ✨
@dan what are your thoughts? Does it make sense for the `must approve users` admin setting to affect the ability of trusted users to invite people?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/9 "2021-05-18T15:58:31Z")
A post was merged into an existing topic: [Improve invite system](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-invite-system/173756/8)
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### Author:  [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/10 "2021-06-02T20:59:27Z")
I do not think it makes sense for invites to be disabled if `must approve users` is enabled. I am surprised this did not come up before this because it has been this way since the first versions of Discourse.
I started working on a PR to fix this.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/13257](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/13257)
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### Author:  [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trusted-users-cannot-invite-when-must-approve-users-admin-setting-enabled/190809/12 "2021-06-17T13:05:14Z")