Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 116108
Cannot add Member to Role
Last modified: 2008-10-06 09:39:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in with Site Wide Administrator group permissions. 2. Go to Roles tab. Select "First Time Author" role. 3. Click "Add member". Use Search. Tick "content Administration First Time Author" from results. 4. Click "Add Members" button. Actual Results: An unexpected error has occurred. Expected Results: Automatically returned to Role details screen. "content Administration First Time Author" now appears in Members list. Additional info: Can achieve expected results with other members, for example, "Heather Fishlock"
'content Administration First Time Author' is in fact the internal name for the 'First Time Author' role. So what you are attempting to do here is to add the role to itself - which causes CMS to throw an error. That said, CMS should not have listed this role for you when doing the search in the first place. Thus the fix we'll apply is to filter out these roles when doing the search
*** Bug 116115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
'content Administration First Time Author' is a Group I set up.
Actually, we should only filter out the current role. It should be possible to add "content administration Author" to the editor role, as a shortcut for making sure the same users are assigned to both roles, in cases where that is desirable. But yes, in this case, you were attempting to add a group to itself, which would definitely fail. The UI should, at a minimum, filter out the current group and all supergroups. i.e. if the content section is "content", the role is "Author", then the system creates the "content Administration" group which is the supergroup for all roles in the content section, and for the "Author" role the group "content Administration Author" is created to contain the assigned users/groups for the role. Both of these groups should be filtered out, but "content Administration Editor" should probably remain in the list.
Fixed @40513: Add member/group to role form now filters out the current role and any of its supergroups.
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