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Forums list refuses to show latest entries; comments to opening posts are not accesible.

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Forums list refuses to show latest entries; comments to opening posts are not accesible.
Version
7.x
Category
  • Error
  • Usability
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Submitted by
Philippe Cloutier
Volunteered to solve
nkoth
Lastmod by
SysAdmin of bbash.de
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Description

The following error is observed in an installation of Tiki 7.1 which was some weeks earlier migrated from 6.3 via 7.0.

Environment:

  • Apache 2.2.17
  • mySQL 5.1.58
  • PHP 5.3.8
  • Fedora Linux 14

Bug:

  • The forum list doesn't show the latest entries any more, although even anonymous users have rights to view the forum postings.

    In particular, anonymous user are globally granted the permission tiki_p_forum_read. Nothing was changed in the permissions before the forum list stopped displaying latest entries.

    Yet the only user who is presented with a forum list containing the latest entries is the installation's admin.

  • Also, when visting the topics list of some forum, users are presented a list of the latest entries in that forum (below the list of threads), but when clicking on the links in the list of latest entries, they're taken to thread pages which miss every message except the message which started the respective thread.

    This seems to show that the bug described here is not caused by wrongly granted permissions, because if anonymous users had no permission to read forum posts they would not even see the list of latest entries below a forum's topics list.

  • Recently before the bug was noted, the comment feature (for wiki pages), the freetags feature, and the rating feature were activated, but they were not activate precisly before the forums list stopped working, so the issue may be caused by some finer grained change than simply activating some additional feature.

    Could the issue possibly be related to freetagging single forum postings?

  • After removing all object permissions for every single forum and resetting them, clearing caches, removing freetags from every forum posting, and removing unused freetags, the bug remains.

  • The following forum posts on tiki.org are related to this bug report:
Solution
Nelson Ko fixed this for Tiki 8 in r37889 and for Tiki 7.3 in r37890.
Importance
9 high
Priority
45
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Created
Monday 26 September, 2011 14:59:14 UTC
by SysAdmin of bbash.de
LastModif
Monday 03 October, 2011 02:02:53 UTC


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