Re: Interesting public/private forum visibility bug (or feature?)

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Interesting-public-private-forum-visibility-bug-or-feature-tp7590725p7590734.html

Thanks for the clarification. I can now confirm your observation.

In my case I have an embedded Category app with a set of forum apps as sub-forums as follows:

The top-level Category app has "Smart Application Pages set and all user permissions set at default except: Create_topic, Reply, Show_group_members, which have all columns cleared. In addition, Edit_all is set on.

My sub-apps are in this order:

1. Public ("Anyone" can view this)
2. Restricted (only "Members" can view)
3. Super-Restricted (only "Special" can view)
4. Restricted (only "Members" can view)
5. Restricted (only "Members" can view)
6. Restricted (only "Members" can view)

Notes:
1. Being "Registered" grants you no additional benefits over "Anyone".
2. All those in the "Special" group are also in the "Members" group.

When I swap the positions of sub-forum 2 and 3 those in the "Members" group can then only see the  public sub-forum. This is also the case if I move the Super-Restricted group to the top position in the list so it is followed by the Public group and then all the Restricted groups.

I think I would count this as a bug, as I can't think of a case when this behaviour could be regarded as useful.