Does Access look only at the primary role for the account?

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Problem:

The issue here is that the user has a multirole for his customers and wanted to know if Access only looks at the primary role when setting permissions.

Solution:

Yes our access plugin only looks at the primary role of the user when applying its permissions.

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Last updated by coc-admin 6 years, 5 months ago.

Assisted by: Shane.

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July 26, 2018 at 1:16 pm #956507

coc-admin

I am trying to: Limit pages to the correct roles

Link to a page where the issue can be seen:

I expected to see: Page allowed if role is set; disallowed if not.

Instead, I got: The expected behavior if the role was the primary for the account. If the role was set as one of the "other roles" on the account, the content was denied. Message was "You do not have permission to view this page.".

Is it expected that Access looks only at the primary role?

I'm using plugin User Role Editor. I'm attaching the settings that work (Role "Container Data Entry" as "Primary") and those that don't ("Other").

July 26, 2018 at 3:43 pm #956599

Shane

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Hi Kenn,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Could you let me know how this secondary role was added? But yes Access will look at the primary role.

Thanks,
Shane

July 26, 2018 at 5:23 pm #956633

coc-admin

This is a new app under development, and our first using Toolset. We have used additional roles in previous apps.

FYI...This is in an employee intranet multisite network. Most options are open to all employees. But when we write an app as a sub-site for some specific business function, we give it its own role and limit the use to only the appropriate employees. It hasn't happened yet, but we anticipate a future where some employees have roles in multiple sub-sites/apps.

It looks like we can handle that, as long as no one needs multiple access within a single app. We'll try to avoid that situation.

Thanks.