marvi
July 31, 2025, 11:29pm
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We are using the Calendar plugin and have tried to enable event posting for all users:
However when non-staff users try to post to the calendar this notice comes up:
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is it in fact a bug or are we setting something up incorrectly?
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sam
(Sam Saffron)
August 1, 2025, 2:56am
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Oh this is indeed an oversight, can you try setting it to trust_level_0
, everyone is a special group and it looks like we are missing some special handling here.
trust_level_0
is a group that captures every single logged in user on your forum.
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Moin
August 1, 2025, 5:22am
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There is also another topic about this issue
The discourse post event allowed on groups setting drop down gives the “everyone” group as one of its options. When selected, the expectation is that everyone will be allowed to create events, but this is not the case. To allow any user on the forum to create an event, the trust_level_0 group would need to be selected.
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I think that similar issues with the “everyone” group being included in settings dropdown menues has come up in the past. Probably the setting is just pulling in all gr…
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This error is displayed in two cases:
The user tries to create a private event and invite groups that they cannot access. For example, here I try to invite admins:
To make it work, I would need to change the permission on the Admins group.
A private event is clicked, but no groups are specified.
Maybe we should improve the event builder form to inform the user that this is an incorrect configuration.
@marvi , is it possible that one of those scenarios happened in your case?
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