Ah ! But !

User02 has read properties (through the group he belongs too) on the following categories

Cat1 : yes

Cat2 : yes

Cat2.1 : no

Cat2.2 : yes

Cat2.3 : no

Cat3 : no

He won't see Cat2.1 or 2.3 under the category module, on the front page - hence, won't be able to read it. Though, in his subscribe2 profile, he'll be able to subscribe to any of the categories his group is a reader to.

Greetings,

J.

I e-mailed you about taking a closer look at your groups since I haven't been able to reproduce this.

RC5 adds the following query to delete any orphaned group roles (roles whose groups were deleted while RS was deactivated or in prev versions when RS wasn't paying attention):

DELETE FROM wp_user2role2object_rs WHERE group_id >= '1′ AND group_id NOT IN ( SELECT ID FROM wp_groups_rs )

There is a preceding check to ensure the groups table and ID column are valid. I don't see why this would delete any roles for existing groups, but unless we can explain it I will remove that maintenance feature from the next RS release.

So far I can't reproduce or explain the failed group role assignment at all, except that there seems to be a common thread of some problem with the storage/retrieval of your group IDs.

Okay, I think I nailed this one - try the updated development snapshot, now RC6-8c27

The Persistent Cache for Group Roles was not flushed following a change in a group’s assignment(s). That explains why your Category Role Assignments and Unassignments did not take effect. This appears to be a longstanding bug (PHP lesson: an array with one null-valued element does not evaluate false.) I’m surprised this didn’t trip up anyone else before, sorry I didn’t find it myself, and thankful that you reported it.

However, I cannot find any hint of your last two symptoms.

My only thought on the apparant inability to assign new Category roles to a group: Are you sure the assignment mode dropdown was set to “assign” and not “remove”? Please let me know if this symptom proves authentic.

I haven’t reproduced or explained your reported lost role assignments either, so I disabled the non-essential “orphan-deletion” maintenance code until I have more time to prove it out.

Hi,

As I understand it Subscribe2 will not understand the concept of groups, it just sends emails notifications according to each users settings/preferences, or maybe according to the default subscribe2 settings.

with subscribe2 sers are allowed to subscribe to named categories, or it may be that they are automatically subscribed to named categories in some way. The way I set things up in my blog is the users are not auto subscribed to anything, they must visit their profile pages and choose which categories to subscribe to. According to role scoper, they will then only see the categories for subscription that they can normally see in the blog, so I expect in this way regular users will not be able to choose to subscribe to your exclusive category.

But it may be something in subscribe2 settings, say under the auto-subscription settings, that means users are automatically subscribed to your exclusive category by default, even if they cannot do it for themselves. You can add extra protection and modify the subscribe2 templates (also in settings) so that the POST content is not sent with the emails, just such things as title, permalink.

I would suggest you have a play with the subscribe2 settings, though I am not sure what might happen to existing users who are now subscribed, if they cannot see the category might not be able to unsubscribe, and you might not be able to easily do it for them. Might need a database clearout of some sort. You might to try some support from the subscribe2 guys, they seem helpful.

Hope that helps a bit.

YikYak

I think you should be able to do it with just the normal plugin options page, that's what I meant by settings. It works for me, I have a number of users who each have a unique category that only they (and admin) can read and write to - this part is governed by Role Scoper settings. Each of my users can use subscribe2, and each gets the chance to subscribe to "public" categories and their own category, they cannot subscribe to other users restricted categories, have a play I think you'll make it work with a little experimenting.

Can you tell me more about your configuration, especially any customized Role Scoper options?

I tried this out on default WP 2.9.2 and WP 3.0 installations, and don't see any problem.

Hi,

I'm back with the same problem, the list of categories doesn't show in the Subscriptions page of Subscribe2 for WP Subscribers with the following environment : WP 3.0 & RS 1.2.7. I'm using only one restricted category, WP Subscribers have access (Reading a private post) to it, and there's also a public category and Uncategorized. That way, guests will not see posts in this restricted category. I also use some restrictions on a few pages.

When a user registers, Subscribe2 is not able to subscribe him to the restricted category even if I choose to automatically subscribe new users to all categories. Is that normal ?

Then, if the user wants to subscribe/unsubscribe, he can't see the categories in Subscriptions page.

What is strange is that when I give a user the Author role, he can access to the list of the categories and if I give him back the Subscriber role, he keeps his access to the list of categories in the Subscriptions page. I have not specified anything related to the Author role in Role Scoper. If I give the user the Author role and if he doesn't access the Subscriptions page while he is an author, when I give him back the Subscriber role, he has not access to the categories.

Do you have any idea on that problem ? Do you want me to do some more investigation ? That's not a big deal, because it's a little website, but that would be perfect if those 2 plugins worked together.

Thank you for your great plugin.

A french user