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Users can't create new topics on the Discussions page

afielden

I've programmatically created a site, but when logging in as a non-admin user, the discussion tab doesn't allow me to create a new topic, as shown in the attached snapshot, the button is disabled.

I presume this is a permission/role problem. Site node has the following permissions

ReadPermissions	GROUP_EVERYONE	ALLOWED
SiteCollaborator	GROUP_site_scQnTQcSXo_SiteCollaborator	ALLOWED
SiteConsumer	GROUP_site_scQnTQcSXo_SiteConsumer	ALLOWED
SiteManager	GROUP_site_scQnTQcSXo_SiteManager	ALLOWED
SiteContributor	GROUP_site_scQnTQcSXo_SiteContributor	ALLOWED

admin user has no problem in creating a new topic. Surely at least the site owner should be able to create a new topic?

Any suggestions please? This is Alfresco 5.2.

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abhinavmishra14

As the permission levels states, if you are trying to create the topic in a site then the logged in user must have write access. i.e. use must be at least contributor. You have not mentioned the permission of the user which you are using to login. Please check the table below

Refer for more details:

https://docs.alfresco.com/5.2/references/permissions_share_components.html

https://docs.alfresco.com/5.2/references/permissions_share_other.html

afielden

Thanks for the info. That does seem crystal clear doesn't it?

There's still something weird going on though, because I just changed the user's permission to 'Collaborator', and still can't create a new topic.

abhinavmishra14

Hmm, Do you see any logs or errors while creating the topics by Collaborator user ? Can you check share.log, alfresco.log and catalina.out log

Another test to do, create another user. Add the user to the site as a manager and try to create the topic. Just to double check the permission issues.

afielden

Well this is interesting, because I just created a new user, and added the user to the site. Result - user can't create a new topic, even though I added them as a contributor.

Only user who can create a new topic at the moment is admin.