Greetings everyone. Very interesting issue with users in Administrators role not being able to access their own user folder.

I've been using slightly modified version of DAM module but after I replaced my dll with original one from 7.3.3 upgrade packed the issue still persists.

I've spent a day looking trying to trace the root cause of this problem with no success. But I have noticed something very interesting with FolderPermission table.

 

 On my dev which is a fresh install of 7.3.3

1. I don't get a FolderPermission record with AlloAccess=0 for Administrators role
2. When I refresh the page the FolderPermissionID stays put.

 

On few client sites that we upgraded to 7.3.3

1. I have a FolderPermission record with AllowAccess=0 for Administraotrs role
2. When I refresh the page entire set of permissions for a given user folder (Users/005/05/5/ and every containing folder) gets wiped and reinserted again hence incrementing FolderPermissionID value.

It doesn't seem to be a problem with DAM module as we run modified version of dll. So the question them becomes what else would display such a behaviour of removing folder permission from the table and inserting them again every time a page is refreshed.

To replicate the problem:

1. Add a page under Activity-Feed with DAM
2. Crate new user
3. Login as new user and visit Activity-Feed with DAM module to create that users folder
4. Add that user too Administrators role
5. Go back to Activity-Feed with DAM module

expected result:

User should be able to access their own folder and files

actual result:

user see blank DAM module and no right click context controls

I would prefer all permission for users folders should just be faked(instead of persisted inividually in the database) - there is no usable UI to configure it - and not really a need.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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Thanks for you input Sebastia. To certain extent I agree but for the most part we managed to live with what is already there. By making few simple modifications to Digital Asset Manager we are able to allow access to users folders for certain roles. It's not ideal but for time being we've grown to accept it.