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1. ClickyB
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Havinga real problem with user access which only manifested itself recently (I have been using successfully for 18 months); I can't be certain when it first occurred (as admin I don't see it)!

   On the "Form 1 Options" Page under "Who can access the form?" I cannot enable the "Author of post (registered users only)" field.
   Under "Roles" I have all boxes ticked but - unless I enable The "Unregistered Users (i.e. everyone)" field, Contributors are unable to access the form (Message reads "You don't have permission to access this form")!

   I don't want to enable "Unregistered Users (i.e. everyone)" (for obvious reasons)...
   Do you have any idea why I can't enable the "Author of post (registered users only)" field?

2. the_dead_one
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Of course you can't enable "Author of post (registered users only)" because I haven't enabled it yet. I must have merged it across from my editing work - but it doesn't do anything. That checkbox is only for editing forms (which is not supported yet) - the idea being to allow Authors of posts edit their own posts. For new posts, you don't yet have an author! :)

   As for Contributors not being able to access the form even though you have all the Roles enabled, is very strange. What are you're other configurations for access?

3. ClickyB
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Hi TDO,

   As a temporary workaround I currently I have it set to allow "Unregistered Users (i.e. everyone)" but that's (obviously) not preferable long term...

   How I had it set was to allow "Users with rights to publish posts".
   Then I had all 5 boxes checked.... ie:
   Subscriber (newly registered users)
   Contributor
   Editor (can publish posts)
   Author (can publish posts)
   Administrator (can publish posts)

   But - the problem was that Subscribers & Contributors were seeing a message saying: "You don't have access rights to this form"!
   The strangest thing of all was that the first member to encounter the problem was a "contributor" with the highest TDO post-count!

   Stranger still is that - since I changed settings to allow "Unregistered Users (i.e. everyone)", he made another post... But when I check the "Manage" link he isn't listed under "Last 15 Submitters"... In fact - the last 2 users to use the form haven't been included in the "Manage" list!

   Sorry to hear you were unwell btw... Hope you're over it now.

   Regards,
   ClickyB

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