user assignment does not work when assignee not in "right" role

thechraveler,

Did you try with or without the patch in this issue:

#839260: Permission system overhaul

Thank you.
Alexis

for users to display assignee's list (auto complete), users should be assigned some roles. This module works like this as I understand. I think this is a serious problem with this module. In my opinion all group members can be searched in auto complete. Even this does not work for authenticated users as well. but if a new role is created and users is assigned that role then users autocomplete is there. Hope this will help some one.

Devender

Devender,

Yes. People who cannot be assigned a To Do task cannot be selected in the auto-complete. There is no need to do so since it would be refused when you hit Save wasting your time.

That's a feature... 8-)

I will look into the documentation to see whether I really don't mention that in there...

Thank you.
Alexis

Alexis

I think I created some confusion here. What I learn from this is.. suppose there is some Group named - XYZ and there are five member users in this group like a1, a2, a3, a4, a5. Out of 5, 3 (a1, a2, a3) are assigned a special role (Drupal Role) suppose Content Manager and rest 2 are authenticated users. a4 and a5 have permission for viewing To Do and creating To Dos in the same group they are part of. In this case with auto complete stuff only 3 users (a1, a2, a3) are visible which are assigned special role and rest 2 (a4, a5) authenticated users are not visible in auto complete.

I hope this will help now.

devenderdagar,

I suggest you try with the patch defined in the issue mentioned below since it will be applied once I have time to test it. Maybe that will resolve your problem, although users who are just 'authenticated' cannot see, edit, delete or anything to the To do items. However, this patch adds much better (clearer) permissions so it may work better for you.

(make sure to look for the very last patch!)
#839260: Permission system overhaul

Thank you.
Alexis

Devender,

I have finally tested and checked in the patch in #839260: Permission system overhaul.

The newer version should work as expected. Still, only those users who can be assigned a To do item will show in the To do auto-complete list.

I will try later to see whether there is a problem with people in one list or the other.

Thank you.
Alexis

Just in case, the permission documentation is here:

To Do List Permissions

and I added a Known Issues entry:

To Do List Known Issues

Thank you.
Alexis

I have applied the patch I mentioned earlier with a few fixes as mentioned in the corresponding issue.

Since the documentation was updated with more information about the assignee problem, I will close this issue for now.

Thank you.
Alexis