Hallo,
I have the following problem but coudn't find any solution here:

I gave permission "edit own blog" to all authenticated users.

When I loggin as an authenticated user who has written several blog entries I can only edit/delete some of my entries but not all.

I tried to find out what the difference between one own entry and another one is. But I could not find out where this strange inconsistancy comes from.

Please help!
Thanks

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haus commented

I may add some more information. Someone might have solved the same problem with permissions?!

The same strange problem as described above appears with other content types, too:

I can edit/delete some of my groups but others of my own I can't.

Permission are:
- create own group content: ON,
- edit own group content: ON,
- edit group content: OFF

I did rebuilding permissons at /admin/content/node-settings bit it didn't help.

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catch
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

This sounds like an input format issue - please check if the user has access to the input format as well as the content type.

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haus commented

Great! Thank you very much catch! You gave me the right hint!

Just for information what happened:

An admin with "Full HTML" access rights saved the blog entry of the other user coosing the input format "Full HTML". But because the other user doesn't have access rights to "Full HTML" he cannot edit his own entry anymore.

To solve the problem the admin had to save the entry in original (Filtered HTML) again. Now, the user can edit his own entry again.

Now, it makes sense to me. The access right to edit/delete own content has a lower priority than input format rights.
This is not really plausible to me. I think there should be at least a warning or explanation somewhere. Is there? Couldn't find it.

Wouldn't it be more plausible to give the right to edit own content a higher priority than input format rights?
Or, I suggest to give an admin a warning when he changes the input format of content that belongs to another user and wants to save it, like: "Warning: If you change the input format, the owner of this post will not be able to edit/delete it."

Well, thanks a lot for your help!
Cheers

catch’s picture

catch
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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

haus: there's a patch to make access to filters a full permission instead of the custom way it's currently done at http://drupal.org/node/110242

I've taken the liberty of linking back to this issue since someone seems to run into this about once a week (and it's stung me before when people complained about 'missing edit tabs' on my site). However, if you were to weigh in on that discussion (and even try out the patch on a test version of D7, instructions are here for doing that: http://drupal.org/patch ) that'd do a lot to get it committed and fix this properly.

A warning sounds like a good idea as well, I'll open an issue for that.

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keith.smith commented
Title: Blog permission "edit own blog" does not work consitantly for one and the same user » Blog permission "edit own blog" does not work consistently for one and the same user
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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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dadderley commented

Thank you haus. You have solved a huge problem or me.