Forum .LRN Q&A: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!?

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1: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!?
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 04/19/04 04:15 AM
Hi,
I have the feeling that forum-portlet is buggy. I upgraded from 2.0.1 to 2.0.3 and while an admin user who is member of a group that has a forum can see the forum portlet on my space a normal student who is member of the same group doesn't. so basically no forum at all in dotLRN is visible for students!!!

I wanted to check on the test server but it was always down for the last couple of days.

Can someone verify this bug?

Greetings,
Nima

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2: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Peter Alberer on 04/19/04 10:47 AM
We had a problem with the privacy-checks for the forums. No student could read any posts (but could post new ones). Maybe this is something related...
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3: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 04/19/04 11:39 AM
Peter, the bug you mean we had as well but this was fixed. Now the portlet the forum portlet is simply no displayed for students.
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4: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Grumet on 04/19/04 03:25 PM
Hi Nima,

Can you navigate to /dotlrn/admin/users and check the Guest? status of the student users who cannot see the forums portlet?  If Guest? is set to Yes, that would explain what you are seeing.  And it would be a bug.

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5: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 04/19/04 05:13 PM
Hi Andrew...thank you. Indeed the guest status is set to "Yes". So what would be the solution?
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6: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 04/19/04 05:17 PM
I can iterate over all users and set their guest status to "no" in those cases where they are no guests. Why would it still be a bug then?
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7: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 04/19/04 05:19 PM
On the other hand it must be a bug because all users were added over the batch synch. And I checked again...even if a user is no guest still on "my space" the forums are hidden. Only directly on the community page the forum is accessible.
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8: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Grumet on 04/19/04 08:38 PM
Hi Nima,  can you restart your server and double-check the permissions?  This may be a case of not flushing the permissions cache appropriately when guest status is changed.  Let's talk more about the syncing stuff after you check that.
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9: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 04/23/04 01:46 AM
Hi Andrew, all users in dotLRN seem to have a guest status :( so none of the is able to post anything or see any forum at present. Any suggestion?
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10: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Grumet on 04/23/04 09:56 AM
Nima, are you at the Heidelberg meeting?  Maybe we can work on it together today or tomorrow.
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11: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Volin Karagiozov on 09/22/04 02:33 PM
Nima, Andrew,

Was this problem resolved or no?
I have it on dotLRN 2.0.3 installed this August.

Regards,
Volin Karagiozov

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12: Re: forums-portlet buggy (v2.0.3) - Can this be?!? (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Grumet on 09/22/04 02:55 PM
I don't recall.  Nima?