After enabling the "Change course category (moodle/course:changecategory)" permission for a Category Admin role the user can see a dropdown menu for changing course category but with only one option - the current category. Subcategories of the current category or other categories the Category Admin is assigned to do not appear in the drop-down menu (Edit course settings > Category). Are there any other prerequisites for displaying a dropdown menu with a complete list of categories the user is assigned to?

Steps to replicate this bug:

• Have a user in your Moodle.
• As admin, create a subcategory of "Miscellaneous", e.g "Miscellaneous sub".
• Create a top level category "Not allowed", too.
• Have a course ready in "Miscellaneous".
• Go to "Manage roles" roles/manage.php and click "Add a new role" - Use role or archetype "ARCHETYPE Authenticated user" and let's call it "Category Changer" - with the following permissions:
  • Context types where this role may be assigned: Category
  • See hidden categories (moodle/category:viewhiddencategories) Allow
  • Change course category (moodle/course:changecategory) Allow
  • Update course settings (moodle/course:update) Allow
  • View courses without participation (moodle/course:view) Allow
  • View hidden courses (moodle/course:viewhiddencourses) Allow
  • View hidden sections (moodle/course:viewhiddensections) Allow
  • View participants (moodle/course:viewparticipants) Allow
• Navigate to course and category management course/management.php?categoryid=1.
• On category "Miscellaneous", click "Assign role" and in the following screen "Category Changer".
• Assign the "Category Changer" role to the user you have.
• Log in as the user.
• Go to the course in the "Miscellaneous" category, Cog → Edit settings

What you expect:

• The pulldown menu for "Course category" should show "Miscellaneous" and its subcategory "Miscellaneous sub" but not "Not allowed".

What actually happens:

• The pulldown menu for "Course category" just shows "Miscellaneous"