discord.js - Imagine an app•5mo ago

Permission Overwrites

Does the bot need administrator permission to set permission overwrites on a channel? It's only working for me if the bot has administrator permissions, but I feel like that shouldn't be the case. discord version: discord.js@14.14.1 node version: v20.10.0

const newChannel = await i.guild.channels.create({
      name: ticketName,
      type: ChannelType.GuildText,
      parent: ticketCategoryId,
      permissionOverwrites: [
        {
          id: i.guild.roles.everyone.id,
          deny: [PermissionsBitField.Flags.ViewChannel],
        },
        {
          id: i.user.id,
          deny: [PermissionsBitField.Flags.SendMessages],
        },
      ],
    })

const newChannel = await i.guild.channels.create({
      name: ticketName,
      type: ChannelType.GuildText,
      parent: ticketCategoryId,
      permissionOverwrites: [
        {
          id: i.guild.roles.everyone.id,
          deny: [PermissionsBitField.Flags.ViewChannel],
        },
        {
          id: i.user.id,
          deny: [PermissionsBitField.Flags.SendMessages],
        },
      ],
    })

3 Replies

d.js toolkit•5mo ago

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Toast•5mo ago

manage channels perm i believe is required to adjust the channel perms

Goose•5mo ago

the bot has that permission already but it doesn't work it has every permission besides administrator at the moment If I remove the part that denies view permissions, it still has the same error That appears to have been the problem. I thought the view channels permission allowed it to view all channels by default thanks for the help 🙂

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