[Building Sakai] Groups bug in Resources tool

[Steve Swinsburg]

The issue is that if you have, say, three groups in a site, and give two of them access to see a folder, then as you drill into that folder you are given the option to restrict even further (ie some files/folders might only be visible to one of those two groups). But the list of groups is not shown. Note that the list of groups *is* shown when you add a new file/folder, but not when you edit.

We hit this about a month back as we have some people doing some very complex group permissions work with many levels of nested folders. I attached some screenshots to the JIRA here, and then fixed it:

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18986

Fixed in trunk (2.8), 2.7.2 and 2.6.4 - we've been running it on 2.6 locally in msub for about a month if you want to take a 2.6 patch.

cheers,
Steve





On 22/09/2010, at 9:12 PM, Adam Marshall wrote:

> Isnt this a feature not a bug? As far as I know once you've restricted a folder to a group that's it, you cannot restrict further.
> 
> What you are trying to do is something that has been requested countless times by our users - I posted a long email to Sakai dev a couple of years ago on the subject but didn't really get much response.
> 
> Needless to say we would be very interested indeed should you add the required functionality. (I checked and I havent created a SAK for the feature.)
> 
> adam
> 
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
> | bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Fish
> | Sent: 21 September 2010 12:17
> | To: Sakai Dev Mailing List
> | Subject: [Building Sakai] Groups bug in Resources tool
> | 
> |   One of our users has encountered a strange bug in Resources.
> | 
> | Create a folder in the resources tool and give access to two groups.
> | Create a subfolder and then try to narrow the group access to one
> | group.
> | When you check the "selected groups" radio button nothing happens, the
> | group box does not get displayed.
> | 
> | Has anybody seen this problem ? It is affecting our deployment 2.7.x
> | install but doesn't occur on my later development copy of 2.7.x. Maybe
> | it's a db related issue; we have recently migrated a 2.5 install.
> | 
> | Cheers,
> | 
> | Adrian.
> | 
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