User | Group Memberships | select then remove group | removal fails; site manager is silently misdirected to the wrong user

[grahamperrin]

Actions

For a user (in this case an OpenID user):

• open the Group Memberships tab
• select (tick) a group
• click Remove selected groups.

Bug aspect 1

Critically:

• the removal does not occur

— and the site manager may remain unaware of the failure.

Bug aspect 2

Possibly less critically:

• the User Properties tab to which the site manager is taken is for a user other than the one that was being managed.

I'll attach screen shots.

Environment

Plone 3.1.5.1

[grahamperrin]

Group Memberships tab is without explanation focused on the wrong user

[grahamperrin]

I wrote:

the User Properties tab to which the site manager is taken

Correction; I meant, the Group Memberships tab.

[grahamperrin]

Correction

Mis-coloured tabs led to that particular mistake, so we have a separate ticket:

• Group Memberships and User Properties tabs are not filled green when brought to foreground.

[grahamperrin]

Workaround

1. focus on a group

2. click the Group Members tab

3. select the user that you wish to remove

4. click Remove selected groups / users.

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Whilst capturing that workaround I noted another separate issue:

• Single user listed twice under Group Members tab.

[grahamperrin]

I'm tentatively cross referencing this ticket:8468 with another, more recent, roles and groups assigned to users can _not_ be removed. The symptoms in the latter are more critical in that rights granted can not be revoked.

[grahamperrin]

Workaround involving ZMI

/acl_users/source_groups/manage_groups

For the bugged group, click the question mark under Assignments.

In the Active area, select the bugged user.

Click the left arrow, to move the user to the list of Available users at left hand side.

(Expected: a move from right to left. Instead: the user's name disappears completely, which is confusing, but that's probably a cosmetic bug in ZMI, not Plone.)

[ajgoesele]

Very same problem here on a fresh test install and on our production site. (3.1.5.1)

[grahamperrin]

Possible cross reference between this ticket:8468 and TTP view of group membership differs from ZMI view.

[garbas]

this issue was 3.1 branch related. in trunk was already fixed but something else was missing so i fixed that to.

trunk_fix_8468.diff 31branch_fix_8468.diff

[calvinhp]

(In [22681]) Fixed the silent fail of the group membership from a user, thanks to garbas, refs #8468

[calvinhp]

(In [22682]) Fixed the missing tal define in prefs_user_memberships, thanks to garbas, refs #8468