discord.js - Imagine a boo! 👻•2mo ago

PermissionOverwrites question.

I want to deny viewing access for a specific channel (that already has specific viewing permissions (for set to it) to everyone, but also be able to easily revert them. What should I pay attention to to avoid possibly overwriting permissions for that channel? I know I need the PermissionOverwrites to do this to set a deny on everyone, but if I then set an allow later, does that overwrite the existing permissions?

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d.js toolkit•2mo ago

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Magikaas•2mo ago

Discord.js 14.15.3 (as in tag) Node v20.12.0

Fede•2mo ago

A couple hours ago I asked this to chat gpt and it got me this:

channel.permissionOverwrites.edit(
    channel.guild.id, //this means everyone, but could be a role too
    { ViewMessages: false }
)

channel.permissionOverwrites.edit(
    channel.guild.id, //this means everyone, but could be a role too
    { ViewMessages: false }
)

It's different when the permissions is set at the time the channel is created, but you probably knows this better than me. I had to ask gpt I also don't know if there is .add or .remove IG there is

Fede•2mo ago

https://discord.js.org/docs/packages/discord.js/14.14.1/PermissionOverwrites:Class

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Fede•2mo ago

Nvm

Magikaas•2mo ago

Fede•2mo ago

You could check the docs or try asking chat gpt, this should be an easy thing

Magikaas•2mo ago

I have checked the docs, I am asking about something that is in the Docs, about PermissionOverwrites I'm not asking ChatGPT about code. I'm asking someone that has actually used discord.js to help explain what I'm trying to do. I also initially wrote something like this after some research, but I want to avoid making mistakes like overwriting existing permissions, I couldn't find anything specific about it.

Mark•2mo ago

PermissionOverwriteManager#edit will only change the selected member/role's overwrite to what you specify. using set will essentially remove all overwrites and then set it to what you provide if you're talking about adding or removing a permission from an existing overwrite, then you would get the current overwrite and modify that, then pass it to edit

Magikaas•2mo ago

Ahh, thank you. That's a good thing to keep in mind. I appreciate it 🙂

Fede•2mo ago

Yeah was gonna say that

Magikaas•2mo ago

Thanks, chatgpt 👍 I'll go with a get, change and edit, in that case. Appreciate the explanation!

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