Can't add users to a channel when you don't have manage roles as permission overwrite in the channel but have then server-wide

[TheMoksej]

Description

You can't add users to a channel when you don't have manage roles as permission overwrite in the channel but have manage roles permissions server-wide.

Steps to Reproduce

Give a role manage role permissions server-wide, create a text channel, and don't set permission overwrite for it

Expected Behavior

User should be able to manage channel's permissions and add new users to the channel

Current Behavior

The user doesn't get added to a channel because of the missing permissions error

Screenshots/Videos

Client and System Information

Canary 84371 (4b1fc46) & Stable 84336 (eeeadc8), Windows 10 64-bit build 19042.928

[night]

Your video doesn't show the full scope of what permissions you currently have versus what is being applied. In general the API behavior is tested and working as intended. You can only grant permissions you yourself have as overwrites in a channel. Managing channel permissions requires Manage Roles on the server level, but also not denied on the channel level.

This appears like a bug in the new channel permissions UI, and could be reported via our Discord Testers community: https://discord.gg/discord-testers

[advaith1]

You can only grant permissions you yourself have as overwrites in a channel.

@night According to the docs, having it on the guild is enough:

Only permissions your bot has in the guild or channel can be allowed/denied (unless your bot has a MANAGE_ROLES overwrite in the channel)

So are the docs and the client wrong about that?

[night]

How is what I said different? "you yourself have" = in the guild + channel

[Rapptz]

Managing channel permissions requires Manage Roles on the server level, but also not denied on the channel level.

The permission isn't being denied at the channel level, it's unset. That should mean that it resolves to True.

[advaith1]

oh I think i misread it and thought it said he needs the permission to be allowed for himself as an overwrite in the channel; however, in this case, Moksej has the Website Moderators role which gives View Channel for the channel:

If he didn't have View Channel then he would not have been able to get to this screen in the first place.

As shown in the video, he is adding a new blank overwrite with the (+) button and then only editing View Channel to allow, so it should work.

Giving a role Moksej has a Manage Permissions allow overwrite made it work, but he already has Manage Roles server-wide so it should work without that overwrite. None of the channel's overwrites deny Manage Permissions, but View Channel is denied for @everyone as it is a private channel.