missing permissions / permissions are already granted

[river fossil]

Hey there, my bot is not able to create a channel.
As the error suggests, it is missing some kind of permission, although it already has both manage roles and manage channels permissions to create the channel with permission overwrites. Is there any possible solution?

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[river fossil]

      if (
        !inter.guild.members.me.permissions.has(
          PermissionsBitField.Flags.ManageChannels
        )
      ) {
        return inter.reply({
          content: 'missing manage channels',
          ephemeral: true,
        });
      }
      if (
        !inter.guild.members.me.permissions.has(
          PermissionsBitField.Flags.ManageRoles
        )
      ) {
        return inter.reply({
          content: 'missing manage roles',
          ephemeral: true,
        });
      }

      try {
        channel = await inter.guild.channels.create({
          name: "test",
          type: 0,
          parent: inter.channel.parent.id,
          permissionOverwrites: [
            {
              id: bot.user.id,
              allow: [
                PermissionsBitField.Flags.ViewChannel,
                PermissionsBitField.Flags.SendMessages,
                PermissionsBitField.Flags.EmbedLinks,
              ],
            },
            {
              id: inter.guild.id,
              allow: [PermissionsBitField.Flags.ViewChannel],
            },
          ],
        });
      } catch (e) {
        channel = await inter.guild.channels.create({
          name: "test",
          type: 0,
          permissionOverwrites: [
            {
              id: bot.user.id,
              allow: [
                PermissionsBitField.Flags.ViewChannel,
                PermissionsBitField.Flags.SendMessages,
                PermissionsBitField.Flags.EmbedLinks,
              ],
            },
            {
              id: inter.guild.id,
              allow: [PermissionsBitField.Flags.ViewChannel],
            },
          ],
        });

        return inter.reply({
          content: 'unable to set parent',
          ephemeral: true,
        });
      }```

[wild swift]

what's the full error including stack

[river fossil]

that's all i get

[wild swift]

There's more below it because that last line is cropped

It should include the API path

[river fossil]

the last line just shows the line of the code

which is this part

      } catch (e) {
>>>        channel = await inter.guild.channels.create({

the error stops there

[viral siren]

Your bot is missing one of the three permissions you try to add as allow overwrite there. Your bot can’t allow itself a permission it doesn’t already have

[river fossil]

it has all 3

sending messages in other channels with embeds works fine

[river fossil]

i got the extra part

[viral siren]

Does it have them globally though? console.log(inter.guild.members.me.permissions) please

[river fossil]

PermissionsBitField { bitfield: 1808015873801975n }

[river fossil]

?

[viral siren]

And that’s on the same guild the error comes from?

[river fossil]

yes

[viral siren]

Can you console.log the error you catch too please?

[viral siren]

Wait. But this had a parent_id in it too. But you literally catch that error and then try to create without parent_id. So does that succeed?

console.log(inter.guild.members.me.permissionsIn('841311039462572053') then

[river fossil]

it creates the channel, but it does not set the permissions

i take that back, it succeeds

[viral siren]

You said the error you got referenced this line, which is the one creating without parent id. Yet your error details show the parent id. This doesn’t add up. What is it?

[river fossil]

the parent seems to be the issue

[viral siren]

👆

[river fossil]

PermissionsBitField { bitfield: 1808015873800951n }

[viral siren]

Yup, your bot is missing ViewChannel permissions on that

That’s why it can‘t grant that permission to anyone (including itself) to a child of that category

[river fossil]

alright, is there any way i can simplify that bitfield into permission names, for better understanding on my end?