[Building Sakai] Groups bug in Resources tool

[Adrian Fish]

  Hi Adam,

It is as Steve says. I just deployed the latest 2.7.x sakai-content-tool 
war to the live server and it works as described.

Cheers,
Adrian.

On 22/09/2010 12:39, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> 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> [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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>> | Lancaster
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