The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.When no role is selected for available users filtering. Instead of displaying all users, no-one is available.
In user_reference.module while building query in _user_reference_potential_references_standard(), the user role filter setting test always return true for the following condition : !in_array(DRUPAL_AUTHENTICATED_RID, $field['settings']['referenceable_roles']).
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #5 | user_reference.module.patch | 1002 bytes | JulienD |
| #3 | user_reference.module.patch | 1.15 KB | JulienD |
| #1 | user_reference.module.patch | 920 bytes | JulienD |
Comments
Comment #1
JulienD commentedHere's a .patch file to solve the fact that no results are returned in the user_reference field when no roles are selected in the field settings.
I just used a "array_filter" on the field user_reference to exclude empty results.
Comment #2
fgmWith the patch in #1, $roles is being assigned twice in a row without change: the first assignment is therefore useless.
And it does not apply because you rolled it in references/node_reference instead of references/
Comment #3
JulienD commentedI updated my patch to allow it to be applied from the root of the module and I removed the first declaration of $roles as suggested in #2.
Comment #4
fgmYou don't really want to leave a dpq() in the patch, do you ? ;-)
Comment #5
JulienD commentedEven if the dpq() is really useful, I agree this function should not be there. My cold has a bad impact on my attention. Sorry
Comment #6
JulienD commentedComment #7
fgmCool, now can we have a test with that ?