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    • Group/Category Permissions Problem

    Posted by MrOreo posts: 3

    I'm running version 2.2, and I'm having trouble getting a newly created group (Collaborators) to see pages assigned to a category (Collaborators).

    I keep getting a "Permission denied you cannot view this page" error when I'm logged in as a user assigned to the Collaborators group.

    The only way I've been able to view these pages as a Collaborator (via group permissions) is to give the group the "tiki_p_admin" permission, which I don't want to do. I even went so far as to turn on EVERY other permission except "tiki_p_admin" (for a total of 89 permissions turned on), and it still gave me the "Permission denied you cannot view this page" error.

    I can also view the pages if I give view privileges to each individual page to the Collaborators group, which is also cumbersome.

    I tried searching the forums, and the only advice that has been given to similar problems is the clear the cache or give "tiki_p_view_categorized" and/or other category-related permissions, none of which has worked. Please help!

    -Hero

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    Posted by MrOreo posts: 3

    No, not originally. After trying to solve the problem via all sorts of group/category permissions (such as turning on everything but tiki_p_admin), I tried setting page-specific permissions to see if that would work. It did, but I have since removed all page-specific permissions since that is a tedious solution, and I figured there's maybe something I missed.

    The only working solutions I've found so far are:

    • tiki_p_admin at the group level
    • tiki_p_view at the page-specific level


    The common solutions I've read about in other posts that have NOT worked are:

    • tiki_p_view and tiki_p_view_categorized at the group level (sorry, Rick)
    • Clearing the cache


    Is this a known bug? Or am I just missing something?

    Thanks again,
    Hero

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    Sorry, but I was unable to duplicate your problem. You probably have something conflicting with the permissions.
    Using 2.2:

    1. I created a new group Collaborators (that includes Registered).
    2. I assigned tiki_p_view_categorized to the Collaborators group (it already inherited tiki_p_view from Registered).
    3. I created a new Category Collaborations.
    4. I assigned tiki_p_view_categorized to the Collaborators group for the Collaborations cateogry.
    5. I created a new page and assigned it to the Collaborations category.
    6. I created a new user and assigned it to the Collaborators group.

    Logging in as this new user I was able to view the page.

    HTH,

    -Rick
    Need more help? Try TikiWiki for Dummies Smarties or read my Tiki Blog or visit my UserPage

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    Posted by mroreo posts: 3

    Thanks, Rick! In trying follow along above and create entirely new groups and categories (Group_Collaborators and Category_Collaborators) to start fresh, I discovered that I was only changing group permissions, but not category permissions. The whole time, I was only changing what pages fell under the Collaborators category, but not the actual permissions for that category!

    redface

    It only had "tiki_p_view_categories" turned on. I have since added "tiki_p_view_categorized" to the category permissions, and everything works perfectly now!

    Thanks so much for your help!

    -Hero

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    Posted by bags posts: 1

    Hi,

    I am struggling to set up the example given by Rick. At step 2, where I need to assign tiki_p_view_categorized to the Collaborators group I run into trouble.
    I my setup, when viewing Assign permissions to group: Collaborator, the checkbox for tiki_p_view_categorized is already checked with inherited from Anonymous in the Desc column.
    I presume once the user is logged in, they are no longer in the Anonymous group, so how do I explicitly set the permission for the Collaborators group as the checkbox is checked and grayed out?

    Note that I had already set up a group/category/user similar to the above example and could not make it work as expected and getting the same error message as Hero, which lead me to this forum.

    I hope this makes sense.

    Regards
    Bags

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