I’m having a lot of problems with authors fields.
On this one form I have an authors field with its default value set to the group name in the ACL set to Author with the “Create Documents” checked off.
When the user tries and creates a document using the form, when they save it just sits there. It does not exit the form. When you try to close it and it asks if you would like to save, after hitting yes it just goes back to the form.
Is there something that i don’t know about authors fields that I am doing wrong or not doing at all?
I checked all the fields to check if security “Must have at least editor access to use” but none of thefields have it checked off. That group has access to the form. I have tried roles. Tried different formulas and values in the authors fields and i still have this problem.
It only works for this group when I change their access to Editor, obviously.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Subject: Authors Field: this is expected behavior
Original title: Authors Field not allowing Authors to create Documents:
Just recall the sequence in which things work:
First the ACL get’s processed. If someone does not have the CREATEDOCUMENTS right in the ACL, you will never be able to give him this right at a lower level.
An ACL author with CreateDocuments DEselected in the ACL will only be able to EDIT documents where he is listed in the authors names field. He will never be able to create them.
Hope this sheds some light into the problem.
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Subject: Authors Field not allowing Authors to create Documents
Authors fields have no bearing on the results you just mentioned. They simply control edit and read rights to the document once it’s in the database.
Are you sure there’s no funny code in the Query Close, query Save or similar?