By SMFoged on

I somehow lost the ability to edit previously crated nodes. Only logged in as user1 i can edit them.

I have a role called "editor" with the following "Access control" permissions

node module
access content - YES
administer content types - NO
administer nodes - NO
create frontpage content - YES
create membersonly content - YES
create page content - YES
edit frontpage content - YES
edit membersonly content - YES
edit own frontpage content - YES
edit own membersonly content - YES
edit own page content - YES
edit page content - YES
revert revisions - NO
view revisions - NO

I have been creating www.flyingcircus.dk/site over the past year, with no prior drupal experience, I am not a web programmer by trade, but have learned allot since i started creating this site.

The problem came up after installed some extra modules and moving items around in the menus... I might have done some more, but i don't remember exactly what i did.

I tried searching the forums, but really could not find anything that could help me.

Thanks for any help or leads.

Stephen

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

You didn't say what version of Drupal you're using, but try the following.
Logon as user #1 (admin) and find the "Post Settings" node.
Click on "Rebuild Permission" and see if this fixes it.

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SMFoged commented

Hi Techgy... thanks for your answer, i appreciate that.

I just tried to "rebuild permissions" as user#1 i still have the same problem.

The version of drupal i am using is v. 5.2 with a bunch of modules. I can list them if necessary.

could it have something to do with Taxonomy Access: Permissions
All though it seems that i have the role set to

View=on
Update=on
Delete=on
Create=on
List=on

Is there anything else i could do?

Stephen

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

Stephen,

Sorry, but that's the limit of my experience. I'd experienced problems with access myself and the rebuild permissions fixed them. Perhaps someone else has more info.

SMFoged’s picture

SMFoged commented

It is weired.
Now any new nodes created by any user are editable by the "editor" role... but still the older nodes are not.

maybe thats clue to anyone?

Stephen

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transformative commented

I had a similar problem. It turned out that I had changed the default input format for my users, since the old posts had been created.

My authenticated users were only able to use Medium HTML input format, whereas when they first created the node they were able to use Full HTML format (and the post was in Full HTML format). I changed the posts to Medium HTML format and, voila, the users were able to edit again.

This post helped me discover the problem:
http://www.cascadingstyle.net/blog/2008/05/08/trouble-editing-drupal-nod...

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Since I had a lot of nodes with this problem, I did a search and replace in the database, to update all of the nodes to the correct new input format, for everyone but the admin user. Something like this (backing up my database first):

UPDATE node_revisions LEFT JOIN node ON node_revisions.nid = node.nid SET node_revisions.format = 5 WHERE node_revisions.format = 3 AND node.uid <> 1