Hi, I've been having this really weird problem and any help would be hugley appreciated.

I have this sort of tree of restricted pages and I have a group assigned to it as editors. Now the problem is that when a member of this group edits one of these pages the group is immediately unassaigned to the page!!

So the group can't see the page much less edit it anymore. Now, if after that I log in as admin and assign the group to the page again I can edit the page just fine with the members of the group without any problems. Thing is, the same thing keeps happening to the subpages of that page.

I suppose I can go page for page, edit it with a member of the group, and then reasign it with the admin and that would fix it. But I have a lot of pages and I don't want to have go through that.

Any idea what could be happening?

Hello Kevin, sorry for not replying sooner but I've been crazy busy with work.

Let's see

Are the group role assignments for a custom group or a WP Role group?

For a custom group. Haven't tried with a WP group.

What is the user's basic WP role?

All the users that seem to have the problem are Suscriptors (that's everyone except the admin).

Are you losing the Page Parent setting when this error occurs?

Nope.

Do the group-based editors see the "Editors" metabox in their Edit Page form?

What do you mean the "Editors metabox"?

What settings do you have in Roles > Options > Features > Content Maint > "Roles and Restrictions can be set" ?

By Administrators only.

Does Administrator see any difference in the Role assignments or Restrictions after re-assigning the group role?

None that I can tell.

Does the group-based editor see any difference in the Edit Page form after the group role is re-assigned?

None.

To reproduce the mistake try this:

• Create a private page.
• Create another private page with it's parent page set as the first page you created.
• Restrict the first page and it's sub-pages (both checkboxes) for every role.
• Create a custom group with one member in it.
• Assign the role of Editors to this group for the first page you created and it's sub-pages.
• Log in as a member of the group and edit the second page.

What should happen next is that you immediately get "kicked out" of the Edit Page form because that user's group just lost the Editors role on the page.

If that doesn't happen it's something in our wordpress :-/.

I don't think WP 2.8.6 is the problem. I'm using 2.7.1.

Do you have any Default Roles or Default Restrictions defined? See Roles > Pages and Restrictions > Pages.

How is your "Roles and Restrictions can be set" option set in Roles > Options > Features > Content Maint ?

By Administrators only.

Is your Role Type set to "Multiple RS Roles"?

Yes it is.

What role selection boxes does your group member see in the Edit Page form? Any?

None. Isn't that what the "Roles and Restrictions can be set" option is for?

Are your role definitions or RS Options customized at all?

I don't think we customized the role definitions, but we did change some stuff in the RS Options.

"Supress "Private:" Caption" is set and "Include Private Pages in listing if user can read them" is unchecked.

Do you have any Default Roles or Default Restrictions defined? See Roles > Pages and Restrictions > Pages.

I don't think so.

Can one of you set me up as a group-based page editor on your blog so I can see the symptoms myself?

Already done. I sent the info via the contact form. The page you should try to edit is the one named "pag2″.

The site is in spanish, I hope you don't have a problem with that.

ElijahSnow said:

I have this sort of tree of restricted pages and I have a group assigned to it as editors. Now the problem is that when a member of this group edits one of these pages the group is immediately unassaigned to the page!!

So the group can't see the page much less edit it anymore. Now, if after that I log in as admin and assign the group to the page again I can edit the page just fine with the members of the group without any problems. Thing is, the same thing keeps happening to the subpages of that page.

Any idea what could be happening?