# Problems with Staff Priviledges

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/problems-with-staff-priviledges/39001>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Created:** [June 7, 2023, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/problems-with-staff-priviledges/39001 "2023-06-07T07:03:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![GhostDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@GhostDog](https://forum.ghost.org/u/GhostDog)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/problems-with-staff-priviledges/39001/1 "2023-06-07T07:03:37Z")

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I’m hoping a ghost dev can address this:

> <https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/16876>
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> \### Issue Summary
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> "Invite a new staff user" -\> only lists priviledges related… to posts, and there exist no page permissions in Ghost as far as I can see. Is this not essential for headless CMS functionality? If only the administrator can create pages, then each contributor, author, and editor needs to expressly ask the administrator to create the page they want to contribute before they can do anything.
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> It seems like relatively easy functionality for Ghost to add in the \`Invite a new staff user\` flow: to perhaps select if the permission applies to only posts (default) or pages as well (the point of this issue report).
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> \### Steps to Reproduce
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> Invite anyone under a non-administrator permission. They add page. Then they experience the error: "Permission error, cannot save page. You do not have permission to add posts"
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> The second half of the error is incorrect because they are trying to add a page, not a post. The first half also kind of doesn't make sense because why can get create a page and then not be able to save it?
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> \### Ghost Version
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> 4.49 Docker Image
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> \### Node.js Version
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> N/A
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> \### How did you install Ghost?
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> Linux / Docker
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> \### Database type
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> SQLite3
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> \### Browser & OS version
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> \_No response\_
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> \### Relevant log / error output
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> \`\`\`shell
> "Permission error, cannot save page. You do not have permission to add posts"
> \`\`\`
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> \### Code of Conduct
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> \- \[X\] I agree to be friendly and polite to people in this repository

1. is Ghost never planning to support anyone besides admin creating pages?
2. why doesn’t Ghost allow staff to see published pages that they can otherwise see on the internet - so they can compy its settings when they go to make their own similar pages?

It seems like the entire user system in Ghost is designed to work differently than I expected: needing a lot more help from the admin, and back-and-forth between the admin and the contributors, authors, and editors.

Another issue with #2 is you need to add a contributor’s or author’s name to a page in order for them to see it - even if they just need it as a reference for their own page. However, that causes another problem; they’re able to edit this page and it isn’t like the admin gets notifications about edited and unpublished pages.

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