We are using Role Scoper to restrict category access to roles that were created using the Members Plugin. What we are seeing is that when Upload / Insert Image, Media, Etc. is clicked, the box says "You do not have permission to upload files". If we apply Post Author to the customized role, it fixes this, but overrides the category restrictions.

Is this a bug or a configuration issue? What we want is to have a user who can only post to certain categories, with full upload abilities.

Thanks for any ideas of what to try next.

KM

Also tried getting this to work using just Role Scoper. Created a group, gave that group author capability, and then set the categories of that group to post author for some categories, and post reader for the rest. When I log in as a member of that group, I can post to all categories. Is this a config issue or does Role Scoper need additional disk write permissions?

Thanks,

KM

foxyea said:

Also tried getting this to work using just Role Scoper. Created a group, gave that group author capability, and then set the categories of that group to post author for some categories, and post reader for the rest. When I log in as a member of that group, I can post to all categories. Is this a config issue or does Role Scoper need additional disk write permissions?

Thanks,

KM

I did confirm and fix a bug, as mentioned above. However, this sounds like a config issue. Assigning a Post Reader role for certain categories does not override a site-wide Author role. For that approach, you also need to use Category Restrictions to restrict the Post Author and Post Contributor role for desired categories (thus forcing roles to be explicitly assigned for that category).