Member only pages in Revolution not giving the access I expect

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keiron77 Reply #1, 16 years ago

Here’s the scenario

1. User A has these settings - User Group ’Resellers & SI Partners’ with a role of Moderator (Authority 7000);
2. Under Resource Groups I have a group called ’Resellers’ under which I have my page ’dashboard’.
3. If I don’t add Context Access to ’Resellers & SI Partners’ the page is private until logging in, which is ok.
4. If I add Context Access to ’Resellers & SI Partners’ using web, min role 9999 and resource the page is private until logging in, which is still ok.
5. If I add Resource Group Access to ’Resellers & SI Partners’ using web, min role 9999 and resource the resource can now not be accessed even if I am logged in.

The site will be structured in this way:

public page
public page
dashboard (all who log in can access)
|- Marketing page (all who log in can access)
|- document one (only resellers can access)
|- document two (only resellers can access)
|- document three (only buyers can access)
|- Sales page (all who log in can access)
|- document four (only buyers can access)
|- document five (only resellers can access)
|- document six (only buyers can access)

Any Idea what id going one?

Without linking the user group and resource group I can’t fine tune the access a couple of levels down. If I return some information on my marketing page there isn’t enough information to know if the user has access or not without the user group and resource groups linked:

All child documents
29, 31, 30
Groups that can access document 29
3
Get the name of resource group 3
Resellers
Am I in the resource group Resellers?
false
Am I in the user group "Resellers & SI Partners"
true

I have followed these instructions and triple checked everything: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Making+Member-Only+Pages
And even read through this page and can’t see the problem: http://bobsguides.com/revolution-permissions.html

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Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 15 years, 11 months ago

Are you testing it in different browser windows (preferably different browsers)?

And just checking - you did add the resource group to the user group acl?

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keiron77 Reply #3, 15 years, 11 months ago

Yes, I am using Firefox for my back-end login updates and Chrome for my front-end user.

- & -

Yes, the document is living under the ’Resellers’ Group in the Resource Group section plus I have double checked this by opening the resource directly to edit and ’Resellers’ is checked.

It’s very strange, I keep double checking everything and I am sure it’s been set up as the guide suggests.

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keiron77 Reply #4, 15 years, 11 months ago

I have been trying and trying and trying this morning and I have a suspicion that it may have been my naming. Is it possible that ampersands cause problems?

This didn’t work: Resellers & SI Partners
But this appears to be ok: Resellers and SI Partners

I have only been one making update at a time flushing, refreshing etc. and this might be the answer. I started by making new groups just called ’test’ and ’test user group’ before renaming my old one and these worked straight away.

Is there anyone involved with developing the core of the systems that can confirm this?