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From: Michael Maranda Date: Jun 18 19:45 UTC Short link

Since the weekend a few people have tried to subscribe themselves to the
Chicago Region Civic Forum, and the Chicago-Team steering committee forum as
"new users" of the platform.  In each case the following type of error is
generated:



There were errors

Group Identifier
    Group identifier 'chicago-team' not found



(group identifier being different for the two cases)

I am able to replicate their error.

Prior to the weekend I had conducted test of the same mechanism with out this
failure.

We're gearing up our recruitment phase, and I'd like t be able to point
newcomers to a place where they can subscribe to forums without such error.

Let me know is this issue is known, or a better way to allow new people to
self-subscribe

Thank  you
    

Michael

From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 19 04:10 UTC Short link

Hi Michael,

> I tested about an hour ago, and things appeared to be working as they
> were supposed to, but friends testing elsewhere ran into same problem
> described above - which again, I replicated.

When you said that registration was working, I assumed that Tim or Steve
had made the change that I suggested, which was to make the messages
visible to the public in both groups.
   http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/chicago/
and
   http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/chicago-team/

I now see that the messages remain visible to group members only. This
(and not the upgrade) is almost certainly the cause of the problem.

As chicago has no messages, would it be ok if we set the visibility of
messages to 'everyone'?

In the case of chicago-team, do you want the public to be able to join,
or are you planning to invite people? The group is currently set to be
'joinable by anyone' while the messages are visible to 'group members
only'. The registration system is (correctly in this case) preventing
the anomalous process from occurring. There is simply no point in having
messages visible to members only, if anyone can join.
    

cheers

Dan