Discord.js v12 Nick command

Question

So basically I have this nick command which changes the specified user nickname but if I will try to run that command on a person that has for example "Staff" Role and also me it'll say that it changed my name but I get an error on console. now I assume it's happening because the Staff Role is in a higher position from my bot and Idk what is the command or how to fix it.

client.on('message', async message => {
  if(message.content.toLowerCase().startsWith(prefix + "nick")) {
    if(message.content.toLowerCase() == prefix + "nick") return message.channel.send('Pls mention someone and do `.nick @user [your text]`')
    const newEmbed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
    .setColor("RANDOM")
    if(!message.member.hasPermission("MANAGE_NICKNAMES")) {
      return message.channel.send("You do not have permission to do that since you're missing `manage_nicknames` perm")}
      if(!message.guild.me.roles.highest.position) return message.channel.send("I can't change that user nickname since my role is lower than his one.")
      if(message.author.bot) return;
      if(message.guild === null) return
      let args = message.content.slice(prefix.length).split(/ +/);
      let mentionedUser = message.mentions.members.first() || message.guild.members.cache.get(args[1])
      if(mentionedUser.hasPermission("ADMINISTRATOR")) return message.channel.send("I can't change this user nickname since he has `administrator` perm")
      let name = args.slice(2).join(" ");
      newEmbed.setDescription("**Mention a user to change his nickname.**")
      .setTimestamp()
      newEmbed.setDescription(`I have successfully changed **${mentionedUser.user.tag}** nickname to **${name}**.`);

      mentionedUser.setNickname(name)
      message.channel.send(newEmbed);
  
} else {
  if(message.content.toLowerCase() === prefix + "help nick") {
    const newEmbed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
    .setColor('#00B2B2')
    .setTitle('**Nick Help**')
    newEmbed.setDescription('this command is changing peoples names for example `.nick @user 123`.')
    .setFooter(`Requested by ${message.author.tag}`, message.author.displayAvatarURL())
    .setTimestamp();
    message.channel.send(newEmbed)
  }
}})

Draityalan Draityalan · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-19T16:18:34

As you well assumed the error is due to the bot having insufficient permissions on those staff members.

It would have been useful to have the error in your question, but I guess it's about insufficient permissions.

To resolve this the only way I know is to put the role of your bot higher in the hierarchy than the staff role in the discord guild's roles list.

Discord.js v12 Nick command

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