Ticket #8710 (confirmed Bug)
Info 'Changes saved' is a false statement when a group addition fails without explanation
Reported by: | grahamperrin | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | 4.x |
Component: | General | Version: | 3.3 |
Keywords: | tuneup | Cc: |
Description
- /prefs_groups_overview
- click Add New Group
- enter Name Freeman Centre ICT SIG
- enter Title Freeman Centre ICT SIG
- enter Description Information and communication technology special interest group at Freeman Centre.
- click Save
- observe the statement Info | Changes saved
Expected
The new group should be listed.
Bug
The group is not listed (the changes were not saved).
Environment
- Plone 3.1.6
- OpenID enabled
- plone.app.ldap
- read only access to LDAP
- /acl_users/ldap/manage_activateInterfacesForm configured as follows:
[√] Authentication (authenticateCredentials) [ ] Reset Credentials (resetCredentials) [ ] Group_Enumeration (enumerateGroups) [ ] Group_Introspection (getGroupById) [ ] Group_Management (removePrincipalFromGroup) [√] Groups (getGroupsForPrincipal) [√] Properties (getPropertiesForUser) [√] Role_Enumeration (enumerateRoles) [√] Roles (getRolesForPrincipal) [ ] User_Adder (doAddUser) [√] User_Enumeration (enumerateUsers) [ ] User_Management (doChangeUser)
Attachments
Change History
comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 3 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin
Failure to add, and the false statement, also occur when attempting to add a local group to a local group. I'll attach a screen shot.
Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin
The result of failed addition of local group 'CENTRIM' to local group 'Freeman Centre'. Misleading.
comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin
Replying to grahamperrin:
Failure to add … when attempting to add a local group to a local group. I'll attach a screen shot.
Aiming to work around that failure, a visit to ZMI revealed that the group was added to the group. (Key word: nest?)
See also
ticket:8538, TTP view of group membership differs from ZMI view.
Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin
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attachment
two local groups added to a local group.png
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ZMI view revealing membership
Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin
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TTP view continues to contradict the ZMI view.png
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Contradiction
comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by hannosch
- Priority changed from critical to major
- Milestone changed from 3.2 to 3.x
comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin
See also
ticket:8763, Info 'Changes applied' is a false statement when dissociation between user and role fails without explanation.
comment:16 Changed 4 years ago by kleist
- Status changed from new to confirmed
- Version set to 3.3
- Component changed from Infrastructure to General
- Milestone changed from 3.3.x to 4.x
Workaround
Observation
After using ZMI to add the group that could not be added through the Plone: