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New Post 10/6/2007 11:29 PM
  Chris
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Where's Create Group?  (United States)

For some reason my site won't display the Create Group option for the MyGroups module.  I have verified the premissions (allow registered users edit rights on the module) but no matter what I do I can't get the Create Group option to display.  Did I miss something?

My site is http://www.momsunitednetwork.com/playgroup_registry.aspx.

 

Any help is much appreciated!

Chris


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New Post 10/7/2007 12:35 AM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

Hi Chris,

It may be your containers that are not rendering the module actions - try one of the core containers and see if it appears to confirm if this is the case.


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New Post 10/7/2007 9:55 PM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

Thanks for the reply, I will give it a try and let you know...


Chris
 
New Post 10/8/2007 1:32 AM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

Still no Joy.  I replaced the container with the DNN Default container and I still don't see the "Create Group" button...  Feel free to have a look at:  http://www.momsunitednetwork.com/playgroup_registry.aspx...  Registered users have edit rights on the module and, as I understand it, should the Create Group button.  My Admin accounts can see the link but no one else can...

 

 


Chris
 
New Post 10/8/2007 1:51 AM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

Hmm - I checked the code, and it's definitely looking for Edit Rights.

One thing, you say you can create it as Admin - can you click on Create Group and copy the URL, and then log in as a registered user and paste that URL and let me know what happens...


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Rodney
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New Post 10/8/2007 11:53 AM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

Okay, the link I found when I clicked on Create Group while logged in as an administrator is http://www.momsunitednetwork.com/Default.aspx?tabid=314&ctl=Edit&mid=1049.  When I login with non-administrator account and click that link I am presented with the same Create Group module.  But something else is strange.  I can even hit this module as an unregistered user...  The permissions seem correct but the behavior isn't matching...

http://www.momsunitednetwork.com/pictures/permissions.jpg

Did I miss-configure something?

 


Chris
 
New Post 10/8/2007 11:09 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

Yes, I noticed that the EditGroup (Create Group) view was allowing all users in - this is fixed in the upcoming version (4.3.5).

I really don't understand it - can you go into your Module Definitions for "Smart-Thinker - UserGroup" and click on the Edit control and change the type to Edit, and then try again? (this is fixed in the upcoming DNN file)

Also - are you sure that it is not the container? The admin user might be using a different skin/container from the normal user - this is the only thing I can think of and I have seen this before.

 


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Rodney
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New Post 10/9/2007 12:36 AM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

I think I made the change as you specified but didn't see a difference.  I even added the usrgroup module to a different page and changed the container.  Still no luck.  Is there something else we can look at?

Do you suppose we could get by if we simply create a link that sends the user to the create group module?


Chris
 
New Post 10/9/2007 2:38 AM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

Yes, you can definitely just use a normal link (or a nice fancy button that points to the URL you copied - this is what I do on PokerDIY on the "Create a Group" tab (it's just an HTML module). I'd still love to get to the bottom of this though!


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New Post 10/13/2007 3:44 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

Chris, did you change the Module Friendly Names by any chance? I just saw this thread...


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New Post 10/13/2007 6:32 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

Yes, I changed the name from smart-thinking Usergroups to Usergroups.  I couldn’t see the last part of the module name in the drop down.

I will remove and re-install the module and see if that solves the problem.

Chris

 

For the record, there is a CSS fix somewhere on the ST forums to increase the length of the Module DDL length which solves this problem.

You do not need to remove it - just rename it back should do the trick, although I don't understand why this would affect it but I am keen to know if it works.


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New Post 10/13/2007 6:54 PM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

I tried the rename trick but that didn't seem to solve the issue...  I will reload the groups module and see if it clears up the issue.  This brings up a question though...  Can I export out group information and then re-import?


Chris
 
New Post 10/13/2007 7:05 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

No, you cannot export/import group data. You would need to copy the Group and GroupUser table and replace the data after install using SQL. I don't think that removing and re-installing will help, but then again I am stumped on this problem so if you are able to backup your data please let me know the result.


Thanks
Rodney
See our modules in action on PokerDIY, a social network for home poker players

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New Post 10/13/2007 7:35 PM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

Just finished reloading the modules but the create group button still doesn't appear...  I wonder if I am doing something wrong...


Chris
 
New Post 10/13/2007 8:52 PM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

In case anyone else wants to know how to expand the width of the control panel dropdown here is the link to the previous discussion:

http://www.smart-thinker.com/Support/Forums/tabid/111/forumid/5/threadid/2190/scope/posts/Default.aspx


Chris
 
New Post 10/15/2007 6:10 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

Thanks - I have now pinned that post as a lot of DNN skins seem to make this too small!

Unfortuanelty that still leaves us with the Create Group issue, which has stumped me... I have upgraded my test site to 4.6.2 so I will be making sure it is not a compatability issue, although the modules were confirmed as working when it came out originally.


Thanks
Rodney
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New Post 11/15/2007 5:03 PM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

I have been slow to customize... but I tried to create a manual link to the create groups page and found that it didn't work.  So ignoring the issue of not showing the create group link doesn't work.  I hate to ask but can we do some more work to try and get this to work correctly?


Chris
 
New Post 11/15/2007 5:46 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (Australia)

No problem Chris, can you let me have Admin access to that page? I should be able to determine if it is a bug or not fairly quickly. Can you email me log in details if poss (rod at smart-thinker.com)


Thanks
Rodney
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New Post 11/15/2007 5:48 PM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

I just noticed that I am now several versions behind, with mine being at 4.03.04...  Being that I was never able to get mine to work is there a chance I can get the latest version without having to purchase a renewed subscription?  Paying for the new version without getting the old version to work would be like paying twice for the same thing...

Oh and...  Please? 


Chris
 
New Post 11/16/2007 10:56 PM
  Chris
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Re: Where's Create Group?  (United States)

I truly appreciate the offer.  I was able  somehow get things working...  I ended up uninstalling all of the modules (sheesh, is there any way to remove more than one module at a time) and went through and deleted any previous files.  I then added the modules back and it still didn't work.  after scratching my head for some time I tried adding edit rights to registered users and then looked at the page with a non-admin.  BINGO.  A registered non-admin was able to see and use the create group link.  I removed the page edit rights and made sure the module still had edit rights and then looked at it again with the non-admin account.  BINGO, the non-admin account could see the link.

I went round and round with this and somehow stumbled on to a fix (of sorts).  Not sure if I want to try and reproduce the problem...

It sure would be nice to upgrade to the latest version but for now I need to focus on getting something stable working right...  I am now seeing a new issue (that I will post in another thread)...

Thanks again Rod for offering to help.

Chris


Chris
 
New Post 11/17/2007 3:32 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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