479469 - Submitting a {content type} allowed even when no projects have been joined

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Websites Graveyard :: spreadfirefox.com, defect)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Attachment: Results from Submit Button ScreenShot

A user with no groups joined is allowed to fill out the submit a discussion topic form and press the submit button. A screen shot is attached to this bug with the requisite results of after pressing the submit button

Comment 1

[Paul Booker]

The illegal choice error looks to be fixed on my local sandbox using the latest version of our "OG Forum" module. As soon as we have the latest version of this module committed into SVN  and up on stage ill confirm this problem is fixed.

Thanks Paul

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Aakash, do you mean for this bug to be about the specific message, "An illegal choice has been detected"?

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

I'm just wondering why the form is allowed to submit (or even show) to begin with in that scenario.

Comment 4

[Paul Booker]

I can't confirm the "illegal choice" problem is fixed on my local spreadfirefox server or on the stage server because i can't login with a non administrative account or create a new account as an administrator that i can then use. This is problem reported elsewhere. 

"I'm just wondering why the form is allowed to submit (or even show) to begin
with in that scenario."

@Mary
Is this a UI problem for us that needs to be resolved ?

Comment 5

[Mary]

Hey there:

Comment 6

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Hey there:

Hi.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm just wondering why the form is allowed to submit (or even show) to begin
> with in that scenario.

I don't think a user should have to officially "Join" a project, in order to participate in the forums.  Any user might have something valuable to share in any discussion.  Making them "Join" before sharing seems like an unneeded barrier to me.  (In fact, I'm wondering what "Joining" a project means in general)

What do you think?

Comment 7

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

I'm generalizing this a bit so that I can dupe a couple very similar bugs against it.  For each bug, the problem is the same, the only difference is the content type (discussion topic, event, document, others?)

sorry for the spam