Tencent/WeKnora · error

permission denied for this organization

Error message

permission denied for this organization

What it means

Sentinel ErrOrgPermissionDenied returned by organization service authorization checks when the acting tenant is not an org admin (isAdmin false) or when accessing a non-searchable org — the caller lacks the required role/visibility on the organization. Policy guard, not a data error.

Source

Thrown at internal/application/service/organization.go:29

	"github.com/Tencent/WeKnora/internal/application/repository"
	"github.com/Tencent/WeKnora/internal/logger"
	"github.com/Tencent/WeKnora/internal/types"
	"github.com/Tencent/WeKnora/internal/types/interfaces"
	"github.com/google/uuid"
)

// Default invite code validity in days; allowed values: 0 (never), 1, 7, 30
const DefaultInviteCodeValidityDays = 7

// DefaultMemberLimit is the default max tenant-members per organization (0 = unlimited)
const DefaultMemberLimit = 200

// ValidInviteCodeValidityDays are the allowed values for invite_code_validity_days
var ValidInviteCodeValidityDays = map[int]bool{0: true, 1: true, 7: true, 30: true}

var (
	ErrOrgNotFound           = errors.New("organization not found")
	ErrOrgPermissionDenied   = errors.New("permission denied for this organization")
	ErrCannotRemoveOwner     = errors.New("cannot remove organization owner tenant")
	ErrCannotChangeOwnerRole = errors.New("cannot change organization owner tenant role")
	ErrTenantNotInOrg        = errors.New("tenant is not a member of this organization")
	ErrInvalidRole           = errors.New("invalid role")
	ErrInviteCodeExpired     = errors.New("invite code has expired")
	ErrInvalidValidityDays   = errors.New("invite_code_validity_days must be 0, 1, 7, or 30")
	ErrOrgMemberLimitReached = errors.New("organization member limit reached")
	ErrOrgMemberLimitTooLow  = errors.New("member limit cannot be lower than current member count")
)

// organizationService implements OrganizationService.
//
// Plan 3 of #1303: a "member" of an org is a tenant, identified by
// (org_id, tenant_id). The user_id of the requester is recorded only as
// the representative for UI/audit; permission decisions ride on the
// tenant's role inside the org.
type organizationService struct {
	orgRepo        interfaces.OrganizationRepository

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Solutions

1. Ask an organization admin to perform the operation or grant the role
2. For searchable-org access, the org owner must enable Searchable before cross-tenant lookup succeeds

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at internal/application/service/organization.go:29 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of Tencent/WeKnora@988cbb0330 (2026-09-02). Data as JSON: /api/errors/db8a761b2b193399. Report an issue: GitHub.