Visibility of assign action posts is controlled by whispers allowed groups

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The visibility of assign-related small action posts is controlled by the whispers allowed groups setting when assigns public is disabled, which Moin finds unexpected. Moin explains that users in assign allowed on groups but not in whispers allowed groups can only see their own posts, while those not in assign allowed on groups but allowed to see whispers can see all assign action posts. tobiaseigen confirms the issue and provides steps to reproduce it. Moin notes that the use of whispers for action posts may have been intended for staff-only use and that there’s no visual indicator for hidden posts. tobiaseigen acknowledges the issue and adds it to their list. Moin updates that whispers are no longer visible to authors, meaning users not in whisper-allowed groups can’t see any assign activity posts.

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Is it intentional that the visibility of the assign-related small action posts, when assigns public is disabled, is controlled by whispers allowed groups? For me, that is an unexpected connection; I expected the visibility would be based on assign allowed on groups.

If the user is in an assign allowed on groups group but not in a whispers allowed groups group, they can only see small action posts created by themselves.

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If I add them to the whispers allowed groups, they can see the other posts too.

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Therefore, a user who is not in an assign allowed on groups group but is allowed to see whispers can see all the assign action posts.

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Thanks, Moin! I have repro. That’s a weird little edge case!

  1. create test user, create test group and add user to test group
  2. create category, give test group access
  3. deselect assigns_public
  4. add test group to whispers_allowed_groups and assign_allowed_on_groups
  5. create test topic in category, assign it to someone
  6. as test user, see the assignment small action post
  7. remove test group from whisper_allowed_groups
  8. as test user, refresh screen and no longer see assignment small action post
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The use of whispers for the action posts probably worked very well when whispers and assigns were only for staff.

By the way: my small action posts don’t look like whispers, so there is no indicator that they are hidden.

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OK sounds good! We’ll add this to our list.

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Whispers are no longer visible for the author. So users not in whisper allowed groups can’t see any of these assign activity posts now.

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