Item13915: 'Just me' preference setting is misleading as implemented (disproved)

A user contacted me reporting that he could no longer edit his user topic and was wondering what had happened. Investigating, I determined that he had selected the "Just me" edit preference setting in NatEdit's GUI for setting preferences. Later, a member of AdminGroup edited this topic which resulted in ALLOWTOPICCHANGE being revised to the AdminGroup user.

I see that the reason for this is that the "Just me" option actually sets a Local PERMSET_CHANGE setting to "justauthor" which apparently resets ALLOWTOPICCHANGE to whoever is the most recent author. I understand that this should work under normal circumstances but creates un-expected results when an AdminGroup member edits the topic.

There well may be other reasons for why this is set up this way, however my client requested I raise the question if perhaps the "Just me" setting should instead actually set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE to the WikiName of the current author, thereby avoiding this kind of situation.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 08 Jan 2016

Further testing showed this is not an issue. When Admin User edits the topic, the ALLOWTOPICCHANGE & PERMSET_CHANGE get set to the original author, as one would expect. Closing task as no action needed.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 08 Jan 2016

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