[Eric W]

Hi all – we are having two issues with our group docs and I’m hoping someone else can test this to see if you are having the same issue.

WordPress 4.0.1
CBOX: 1.0.9

2 issues with BP Group Docs:

1.  We have multiple users as group admins, however only the original creator of the document is able to edit the access permissions of the document (site admins can as well, but not group admins to which the document belongs, even though the group has complete edit permissions on the document.)

2.  When a document is edited, it automatically reverts back to a default set of permissions, even though the access permissions weren’t intentionally edited.  This means that to maintain the same permissions, the editor (if they are able) has to reset them each time they edit a document.  If they don’t, then only the group is selected for each category of access.

Thanks!

• This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by Eric W.

[Scott Voth]

Hi Eric – Good to hear from you again and thanks for reporting this.

I tried to reproduce your two issues, but everything seemed to work okay on my test site, but I know that your live site has more users and more places where things might go wrong.

I know that there are a number of fixes to BP Docs recently – is it possible to pull the most recent changes for that plugin – the latest 1.8.x branch https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs/tree/1.8.x or manually apply this changeset https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs/commit/99cb2dee79689f579780aa8d0e514ea14694fda4 to see if it fixes it. Maybe you can try this on a test site, if you have one.

I am also pinging @haystack and @r-a-y to see if they have heard about any such permission glitches with BP Docs.

Let us know – we can delve further into the problem and I can open up a ticket for Boone to look into.

Thanks again.

[Eric W]

Thanks Scott – good to hear from you as well.  We do have a full dev environment so I will pull the most recent changes there and see if that has an impact on these two issues.  I’ll post back what I find next week sometime.

[Jonathan]

If you’re brave, you could also try my fork of buddypress-docs. It fixes quite a few bugs (see the closed issues for a list), among which are a number of permissions-related issues. It also gives you a new theme which allows you to strip down some of the features which might be seen as unnecessary, like setting parent docs. However, it hasn’t been tested on many systems, so use with caution.

[Eric W]

Hi Scott, the pagination fix you linked above was added but this didn’t resolve the access permissions issues.  I as a site admin can edit the permissions on any document so I have to be sure to test as a different account that isn’t a wp admin.  If the account is a normal user and an admin of a BP docs group, they still cannot edit the permissions of a document they didn’t create, even though the permissions imply they should be able to. Since you aren’t seeing this issue Scott, I might go through and start disabling other plugins to see if I can find any conflicts that could be causing it for me.  We aren’t running a lot of other things though, but it’s worth one last check before this gets reported as an issue on github.

Jonathan, thanks for responding, I really appreciate it.  I’m going to check out your fork and commits.  I’m certainly willing to try it out in our dev environment, and if it gives a better experience then it’ll certainly be on the table for production.

[Scott Voth]

Hi Eric – Thanks for trying that fix.  Let us know if you still have issues after disabling the plugins and I will open up a ticket.

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