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Wordpress Access Control Possible Bug
February 11, 2013, 10:11:57 am
I upgraded a copy of my data on test server.  The upgrade went well and was just like previous upgrades I performed.  I'm testing 'Wordpress Access Control' and I might have found some bugs.

I've observed that CiviCRM menus differ between administrator and non-administrator roles.  As expected, non-administrators don't get the administer menu and other sub-menu items.  Similarly, I've observed that changing 'Wordpress Access Control" permissions will add or remove menu and sub-menu items as appropriate.  This i assume is how it should work.

However, in the case of "Accounting Batches", sub-menu items aren't disabled when corresponding permissions are disabled.  For example, when the "create manual batch" permission is disabled, the "New Batch" sub-menu under Accounting Batches is NOT disabled.  Furthermore, when you select it you get a message that says: "Sorry but we are not able to provide this at the moment. You do not have permission to access this page."  Is this a bug?

The "Activity Report" does not appear in the report menu for non-administrators.  I enabled all permissions associated with reports and activities and it still doesn't appear.  Is this a bug?

I do not see any way to give non-administrators anyway to add or manage tags.  Is this how it should work or is this a bug?

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Re: Wordpress Access Control Possible Bug
February 11, 2013, 04:20:40 pm
The behavior of hiding menu items that the user's role doesn't have permission for is expected. The fact that New Batch is NOT hidden for a user w/o that permission is a bug in the default menu permissions. I've filed an issue to fix this : http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-11886

Default permission for the Activities report is 'administer CiviCRM' - so that behavior is expected. You can modify that permission for your site if that doesn't make sense.

Managing Tags is currently an admin function, so expected. There is an option use the Tagset feature ("free tagging) if you want to  allow user-created tags.
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