[Building Sakai] manage group with the new role problem in siteinfo (sakai 2.6)

[Kimberly Ma]

After I applied the tips from Kara, it works now. Thanks a lot!  Thanks Zhen
for creating a jira as a place holder.

Regards,
-Kim
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Zhen Qian <zqian at umich.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi, all:
>
> I have filed a kernel jira for this problem for future reference:
>
> KNL-313: site group realm is created based on group template settings, not
> the parent site settings, which can cause problem if its parent site has
> customized roles
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Zhen
>
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:59:11 -0700 (MST), Kara Stiles
> <kara.stiles at rsmart.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like you need to add the Taa role to your !group.template,
> > !group.template.course or !group.template.project realm (and to the group
> > realms for the groups you already created).
> >
> > In order for a user to participate in a group, they must have a role in
> the
> > site realm that matches an existing role in the group realm.
> >
> > See here for more info.  It's a work in progress.
> >
> > http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Groups+vs.+Sections
> >
> > Kara Stiles
> > Senior Functional Consultant
> > rSmart
> > http://www.rsmart.com
> > ICQ: 396517169
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kimberly Ma" <this4it at gmail.com>
> > To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:59:59 AM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain
> Time
> > (Arizona)
> > Subject: [Building Sakai] manage group with the new role problem in
> > siteinfo (sakai 2.6)
> >
> >
> > Hi, Folks,
> > This is what we found out recently : when you create a group for a site
> > from siteinfo, you can't add the participant with the new role. (for
> > example, "Taa", the new role is site specific, meaning you only added
> this
> > new role id to this site's realm). From the log file, it states:
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > WARN http-8080-Processor24 org.sakaiproject.authz.impl.BaseAuthzGroup -
> > .addUserRole: role undefined: Taa
> > 2009-10-28 10:52:07,534 WARN http-8080-Processor22
> > org.sakaiproject.site.util.SiteParticipantHelper -
> > SiteParticipantHelper.prepareParticipants: user not defined
> > 96c9a392-d0c0-44dc-a2fb-c77b836785a7
> > --------------------------------------
> >
> > The way to reproduce the problem:
> > 1. login as admin,
> > 2. from realm, select the site using site id
> > 3. add a new role id (i.e. Taa) for that site
> > 4. logout and login again as site maintainer
> > 5. assign one of the site members with this new role
> > 6. from siteinfo, click "manage group"
> > 7.click on "creating a new group"
> > 8..select several site members including the member with the new role
> from
> > site membership list and move them(>) to group membership list
> > 9. click on update
> > 10. then come back to check the newly created group, the member with the
> > new role is not in there.
> >
> >
> > I have checked the existing jira issues on "groups, roles and site" and
> did
> > not find any related, if anyone happened to see it, please let us know, I
> > believe it is a bug.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kim Huang
> >
> > Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, OIRT
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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