Item8689: User form issue on foswiki.org

The user form appears to be based on PersonalInfoAddOn though I don't see it installed as a contrib.

However I don't appear to be able to update the comment field in my User Topic, though I appear to have ALLOWTOPICCHANGE access set.

When using the edit button below the form in the topic, the comment field is not editable but shows

I can't in fact edit my topic page. And if I view the raw topic, and then click edit on the form, I also get a permission error.

Access Denied
Attention
Access check on CraigBowers failed. Action "CHANGE": access not allowed on topic. Contact webmaster@foswiki.org if you have any questions.
Related topics: WikiGroups, AccessControl

-- CraigBowers - 08 Mar 2010

for some reason, your topic contained:

%<nop>META:PREFERENCE{name="ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" title="ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" type="Set" value="%25WIKIUSERNAME%25"}%

which i changed %25WIKIUSERNAME%25 to CraigBowers, so it should work now. any idea how it go into that state?

addendum: forgetting a <nop> in this line caused it to get sucked into the actual META:PREFERENCE area %META:PREFERENCE{name="ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" title="ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" type="Set" value="%25WIKIUSERNAME%25"}%

-- WillNorris - 22 Mar 2010

No idea at all. But I still can't either edit the topic, or the comment field using the "edit data" link. The comment field is not an editable field but instead shows:

<input type='text' name='Comment' id='Comment' class='foswikiInputField' size='40' value='Running Foswiki 1.0.7 on Debian/VMWare ESXi, and MacOSX 10.5 ' />

-- CraigBowers - 29 Mar 2010

Craig, is this still an issue? I don't have any problems using the edit data button, and since this task, foswiki.org has gone through multiple major upgrades. If not an issue, please set it to No Action. Thanks.

-- GeorgeClark - 27 Aug 2016

Yes it's still an issue. Access Denied

Attention

Access check on "Main.CraigBowers" failed. Action "CHANGE": access not allowed on topic by user CraigBowers.

-- CraigBowers - 03 Sep 2016

Ah... there is a typo in the topic meta. META:PREFERENCE{name="ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" title="ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" type="Set" value="CraigBowersr"}%

No idea how an extra "r"got added onto your name. Should be fixed now.

-- GeorgeClark - 03 Sep 2016

Could you also confirm that the user form is behaving correctly when you edit it ... assuming that edit is now fixed. If everything looks good, please close this task. Thanks

-- GeorgeClark - 03 Sep 2016

Thank you.

-- CraigBowers - 03 Sep 2016

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