Cannot Edit a Permission Group Parent Group

[Erica Rohlfs]

Version 3.4, 3.5 +

Within the Permission Group Editor (Administration -> Server Administration -> Permission Groups), the user can no longer edit the Permission Group's Parent Group. This is particularly problematic for new Evergreen setups and permission group clean up projects. Please reintroduce the ability for an end user to edit the parent group of an existing permission group.

[Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u)]

Confirmed this is still an issue in 3.8

[Lindsay Stratton (lstratton)]

I'm going to say that not being able to edit a group's parent group makes profile clean up projects, which relate to other things like circ rule clean up projects, impossible.

This is pretty critical.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

Upon taking a look at this, it's not just a matter of removing the 'readonlyFields="parent"' bit from the eg-fm-record-editor. In addition to that, when a change of parent is detected, either the entire permission tree should be reloaded from the database or the component's internal tree structure updated.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

A patch is available in working/user/gmcharlt/lp1891349_change_pgt_parent. Not quite a pull request yet, as it doesn't stop you from creating ancestry loops (I'm my own grandpa), and because of how the inherited permissions are displayed, creating that situation can lead to infinite loops when rendering the interface.