About KARL community should be accessible to all users

[Nat Katin-Borland]

The About KARL community (https://karl.soros.org/communities/about-karl/view.html) is a special community that should be accessible by both staff and affiliate users. This is only community that all users in the system have to access. I'm not sure when this changed, but currently the About KARL community is not accessible by affiliates. This means that no guest users have access to the KARL user manual. Please take a look so we can get this sorted out ASAP!

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Hmm, Nat, I think the issue is that About KARL is no longer "active". It hasn't been edited in a long time. When I go here:

  https://karl.soros.org/communities/all_communities.html

...as an affiliate, I can see it. But it doesn't show up for affiliates on the list of communities.

Perhaps the reason you concluded that they can't get to it is because it should appear in the list of My Communities, automatically?

As an immediate step, go edit the Overview and it will suddenly think it is more active than 14 months ago. Then, let me know what was the reason you concluded that affiliates no longer had access (were you getting Forbidden, or did it just not showup?)

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

You're right - it just wasn't visible b/c the community was no longer considered active. Phew! There's still a bug though b/c we're by default only showing affiliate users "active" communities, rather than all the communities they have permission to see. If I login as an affiliate and click on "Home" I'm taken to https://karl.soros.org/communities/active_communities.html. So I'm only able to see active communities for some reason and I don't have a button that allows me to toggle between active and all communities. So once the About KARL community becomes inactive unless I click on the Help link it appears as if I don't have access to the community.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

The desired outcome for UX1 and UX2 for the View Communities screen:

- All users see the Active/All filter

- For KarlAffiliate, the filter defaults to "All"

- For everybody else, the filter defaults to "Active"

[Carlos de la Guardia (cguardia)]

Pushed to branch cguardia-active-communities. Note that it's necessary to remove the karl.communties_view cookie before testing, or the last filter used will take precedence over the new default.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Over to Jim for testing at https://karldev.gocept.com/cguardia-active-communities/osf

Jim, let me know if you need any help on the part about the cookie or just on testing in general on this one.

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

Paul: I tested this on the branch and it looks like it is backwards. I get affiliate defaulting to active and everbody else defaulting to all. Looking at your notes above this is wrong. Am I reading something wrong.

jim

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

another comment is I tried url https://karldev.gocept.com/cguardia-active-communities/osf/communities/about-karl/view and got a not found

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Jim, it worked for me as long as I did what Carlos and I mentioned: "Note that it's necessary to remove the karl.communties_view cookie before testing, or the last filter used will take precedence over the new default."

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Jim, based on the last comment, were you able to get it working?

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

This did work for me finally.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Jim said it worked. Marking as fix committed.

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

I thought this had gone into production but I screwed up my affiiate user and now that it is fixed the problem is still there.

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

tested and looks good

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

looks good ready for release

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

fixed