Remove decoding when parsing author variable

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py b/wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py
index ef9dc127..b03c999e 100644
--- a/wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py
+++ b/wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ def update_probeset(name: str):
         insert(conn,
                table="metadata_audit",
                data=MetadataAudit(dataset_id=data_.get("id"),
-                                  editor=author.decode("utf-8"),
+                                  editor=author,
                                   json_data=json.dumps(diff_data)))
     return redirect(f"/datasets/traits/{name}"
                     f"?resource-id={request.args.get('resource-id')}")