Inconsistent Edit access

I have a database that I have inherited and a form that has stopped working just prior to my inheritance so I have no history on it.

The issue is users can open their docs with ctrl + e into edit mode. But if they open the doc in the default read mode and hit the edit button @Command( [EditDocument]; “1” ) it will not go into edit mode. Also, if I change the form to open in edit mode, they receive a not authorized to access msg. They are correctly in the authors field with their canonical names. How can they have edit access with ctrl + e but not any other method?

Subject: Inconsistent Edit access

Check the QueryModeChange event – some folks have an odd idea about how to restrict edit access in Notes.

Subject: RE: Inconsistent Edit access

Yes, I checked there. There is code to make a backend copy to track changes. I disabled it just to test but still nothing. QueryOpen and PostOpen both check to see if the document is in edit mode to set some fields, but nothing else. Any other ideas?

Subject: RE: Inconsistent Edit access

can you post the contents of the Authors field for one of the troubled docs. Open the doc properties box and copy/paste the contents exactly as it appears, thx.

Subject: RE: Inconsistent Edit access

Here are the properties, and users names are canonical

Field Name: Authors

Data Type: Text List

Data Length: 446 bytes

Seq Num: 4

Dup Item ID: 0

Field Flags: SUMMARY READ/WRITE-ACCESS NAMES

Subject: RE: Inconsistent Edit access

you did not post the contents of the field, that’s what I need to see.

Subject: RE: Inconsistent Edit access

Sorry, I must have pasted the properties over top of where I pasted the users.

“[Purchasing]”

“CN=Matt Winchester/OU=IT/OU=Corporate/O=Anderson”

“CN=Christina Roach/OU=IT/OU=Corporate/O=Anderson”

“IT-Notes Developers”

“CN=David Paterson/OU=IT/OU=Corporate/O=Anderson”

“CN=James G Puckett/OU=IT/OU=Corporate/O=Anderson”

Subject: RE: Inconsistent Edit access

@UserAccess produces 3; 1; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 1; 1 both when the doc is in edit mode via ctrl+e or in read mode refusing to go to edit mode. I don’t see how the issue can be user access. Something seems to be preventing the doc from going into edit mode

Subject: Inconsistent Edit access: Resolved

After consulting with our admins we discovered the wrong home server. After correcting that, all users can now get their docs into edit mode no matter how they enter the doc. I don’t understand how that caused this issue, I would have thought it would have created an all or nothing issue, but that was the culprit.

Thanks for everyone’s input