Users with the correct permissions cannot copy a Journal Article

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1 EE SP2 (5.1.5)
• Fix Version/s: 5.1 EE SP3 (5.1.6)
• Component/s: Application Security > Permissions, Legacy Components > API, WCM > Web Content Administration
• Labels: None
• Environment: All

Users with the "Add Article" permissions are unable use the "copy" function in the Journal Portlet because the permissions are not checked properly. So essentially only the community administrator can use this function.

As part of this bug fix, the following method has been added to JournalArticleService

public com.liferay.portlet.journal.model.JournalArticle copyArticle(
long groupId, String oldArticleId, String newArticleId, boolean autoArticleId, double version, long plid)