Message Boards - Delete Permission Will Not Allow Deletions of Threads in Categories/Sub-Categories

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.2 CE GA3, 6.1.30 EE GA3, 6.2.0 CE M5
• Component/s: Collaboration, Collaboration > Message Boards
• Labels:
  • QA-R
  • QA-TP
  • ee-ts
• Environment: LIFERAY VERSION: 6.1 GA 2 ; OPERATING SYSTEM: Red Hat ; APPLICATION SERVER: Tomcat 7.0.x ; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE: Java 6 ; DATABASE: SQL Server 2008
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
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Message Boards - Delete Permission Will Not Allow Deletions of Threads in Categories/Sub-Categories

In the Message Board portlet if a user or a team has the "delete" permission on a category, this permission will only allow deletion of sub-categories and not threads.

[Randall Hidajat]

After looking into this issue, the code does not have this functionality. As such, I have marked it as an improvement.

[Ginson Ren]

PASSED Manual Testing using the following steps:

1. Go to Control Panel > Roles.
2. Click Action near Power User > Define Permissions.
3. Choose Message Boards under the DropDownList of Add Permissions.
4. Check the Delete under Message Boards Category and save.
5. Add a new user.
6. Back to liferay.com.
7. Add Message Boards portlet.
8. Add a new category "test".
9. Click the test and add a new subcategory and a new thread.
10. Login as the new user.
11. Go to the Message Borads portlet.

Reproduced on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 1a1b10cfa672378d25f834c24baf5c469ce5ae0d.

User have no permission to delete the thread.

Fixed on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x EE GIT ID: a4b451cfa4bc14aee8d745b9389cafe4258f2c01.
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 8b3d3bc1f59cd7a6efcedc8ac83a779c54b2e211.

User also have permission to delete the thread.

[Kenneth Chang]

I've attempted to make parent-child relationships consistent across the board, this LPS achieves the following:

if a category has a permission, the children (both threads and categories) will also have that permission
if a folder has a permission, the children (both file entries and folders) will also have that permission
if a wiki node has a permission, the children (wiki pages) will also have that permission
if a wiki page has a permission, the children (wiki pages) will also have that permission