Error changing user's permissions. on Course

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Hello.

I have a issue where i am not able to assign “Discussion Admin” to users.
This affects some of my coruses, but not all,
i created a new one, and there i can add a “discoussion admin”

On the problematic courses i can add "Staff, Admin, “Course Data researcher” and betatesters, but the rest i get an error…
I have tried looking in the log of tutor, but there i only see the “http” request , and nothing on why it does not work .

anyone have any tips to where i should look ?

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Hi @oivheg-bouvet! I attempted to reproduce your issue, without success. First, I had trouble figuring out where was the role assignment page. I finally figured it’s in the “Membership” tab from the course instructor dashboard. For instance: https://demo.openedx.overhang.io/courses/course-v1:edX+DemoX+Demo_Course/instructor#view-membership

But then, the UI that I get is different from yours, which leads me to believe that you are running a different Open edX version than mine.

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Which Open edX version are you running (Koa/Juniper/Ironwood…)? Did you install with Tutor? If yes, which version?

In order to debug this further, we need the status code and response body of the courses/<course-id>/instructor/api/update_forum_role_membership POST request. This will give us the actual root cause of the issue.

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Hello.

Thanks for the repsose, yes i might have been a little unclear.

  1. Yes installed using tutor, i have latest verison v11.1.0, but it have been upgraded from earlier versions.
  2. I use a different theme, so that is why it is different.

i now understood where to look and the result of the post request is:
Status 400
and the respsone body says " Role does not exist.

Of the 4 courses i have, One of them i am able to add a “discussion Moderator”
and i use the same user when i try.

repsosne when it is works is

    {
  "course_id": "course-v1:Himolde+DIKU+2021_T1",
  "action": "allow"
}

So the question then , migh be how can i add the role to the current courses, as i do not want to have to create new ones. as there currently are Learnes on thos courses. ( but i fear , that might be the only way )

Exporting course, and creating a new one, works wihtout any problems, so ther is something wrong in the specific courses.

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It’s weird that you are missing some Role objects. However the solution is fairly simple. You should run:

tutor local run lms ./manage.py lms seed_permissions_roles course-v1:Himolde+DIKU+2021_T1

Then you can try to assign the role again.

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Great, that worked.

Thanks for the help