I believe this is a bug, but feel free to recategorize it to #dev Steps to reproduce Create a theme by going to Admin > Themes > Common > and paste this const currentUser = api.getCurrentUser() const groupIds = currentUser.groups.map(x => x.id) console.log(`User id: ${currentUser.id} Group ids: ${groupIds} (${groupIds.length})`) Impersonate different users to see what groups you get Go to the Data Explorer (or the DB) and run this query SELECT u.id, array_agg(group_id), count(group_id) FROM group_users gu LEFT JOIN users u ON u.id = gu.user_id LEFT JOIN GROUPS g ON g.id = gu.group_id WHERE user_id IN (2, 3, 6) -- or whatever user ids you impersonated GROUP BY u.id ORDER BY u.id DB output - 2 {1,3,10,11,12,13,14,50,63,64,68} 11 - 3 {2,3,10,11,12,13,14,53,54,59,61,75,77,79,88} 15 - 6 {10,11,54,75,77,87} 6 API output - User id: 2 Group ids: 1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 50, 63, 64, 68 (11) - User id: 3 Group ids: 10, 53, 54, 59, 61, 75, 79, 88 (8) <= 7 missing groups - User id: 6 Group ids: 10, 54 (2) <= 4 missing groups The DB output is correct (I can see those users do have those groups assigned in the UI), so there seems to be a problem in the API. What could be causing some groups to not get sent to currentUser.groups?

Ah, good point. No longer a bug then. Thanks!

currentUser.groups doesn't match group_users table

david (David Taylor) July 6, 2021, 9:46am 2

Is it possible that the missing groups have been configured to be hidden from the users? If so, then they won’t be included in the currentUser object on the client.

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currentUser.groups doesn't match group_users table

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