Owners and authors

The cut

The owner may do everything: offers, orders, accounts, settings. The author maintains courses — their own. They see neither orders nor offers nor accounts, not even greyed out.

Why on the server

A role the interface alone knows about is not a role. Call the address directly and you would get through. The check therefore sits at the API; the interface merely also hides what would not work anyway.

Denied means denied, not non-existent

An author opening an owner surface gets a clear refusal — not the claim that the page does not exist. They work here, they know orders exist; pretending otherwise would be silly.

Lists are filtered, not locked

An author's course list shows their courses. Not all of them with an error on opening — that would be a list consisting of dead ends 90 per cent of the time.