Regular user should be allowed to add an announcement to their own created site

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.0 CE GA1, 6.1.10 EE GA1, 6.0.X EE, 6.2.0 CE M2
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2, 6.0.X EE, --Sprint 11/12, 6.2.0 CE M2
• Component/s: Collaboration, Collaboration > Announcements
• Labels:
  • QA-R
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x, 6.0.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Fix Priority: 5
• Similar Issues: Show 4 results ; ;

  LPS-28529	Regular user allowed to assign and approve own tasks in Kaleo Forms portlet
  LPS-33152	Announcement Portlet - Distribution scope
  LPS-7900	Announcement - Scope does not consider Roles associated with User Groups
  LPS-33566	Can not send announcements to an Organization Site

This ticket is derived from SOS-936, since it affects the Portal

A regular user is unable to add an announcement to a site that they create, mainly due to the default permissions for the announcements portlet which allows only super admins to add announcements.

This should be changed so that a user is allowed to add an announcement to any site they create regardless of whether or not they are a super admi

[Michael Saechang]

Committed on:
Portal 6.1.x CE GIT ID: 7afe6b097a6beffd3a2a276958ab16da9b021e92.
Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 768c35ad0d4ae5d320ab6f7b789d025357467b67.

[Luyang Tan]

PASSED Manual Testing using the following steps:

1. Startup liferay, go to control panel.
2. Click role, add a regular role called "test role".
3. Define permissions for "test role":
Click General under portal, choose add site permission.
Click sites under control panel: portal, choose View
and Access in Control Panel permission.
4. Click users and organizations, add a user "user1"
add "test role" to the user.
5. Sign out and sign in with user1, go to control panel.
6. Click site, add a site. add a page to the site.
7. Go to the site, add an announcement portlet.

Reproduced on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.0 CE GA1.

I can not use announcement portlet after I add it.

Fixed on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x CE GIT ID: 456e08ecd3b0bdf1364d4106903b8ab07ff9f82f.
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x EE GIT ID: 32e4bce7985f2975c4461fe4a503811e84af5857.
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 86be5216cafce4a4e655207d9eb29e831a31d03a.

I can use announcement portlet after I add it.

[Serena Song]

PASSED Manual Testing following the steps in the description.

Fixed on:
Tomcat 6.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.0.x EE GIT ID: 682e2d5309f85161c72d1080b2cebf90b56cabb1.

Regular user can add an announcement to their own created site.