As long as you are on latest, the check is valid – it means the permissions on the child category are less restrictive than the parent category, which is kinda busted.
I understand the message, but it appears then that it should not, on all my categories when I want to change the security.
On the same categories, I did not have the message before the update.
The fix is above as supermathie mentioned. The check is new, but less restrictive subcategories have never worked correctly. The check prevents sites from ending up in an inconsistent state.
Thanks everyone. I’ve resolved my issue. I had to add all groups applied to any child categories to the parent category all at the same time. I was trying to add them one at a time and then hit “save” and that wasn’t working. All set now!
Also, I think the error message’s meaning would be clearer if the wording was changed to: Parent category permissions cannot be more restrictive than subcategory permissions.
The error message has been updated to: Any group that is allowed to access a subcategory must also be allowed to access the parent category.
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(Keith John Hutchison - Ceiteach Seán Mac Úistin)
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This is remarkably unclear to me as in it states there is a problem, states what the problem is and yet I know thought the description of the problem was wrong.
I have a parent category with lots of permissions, the subcategory has less permissions, and each permission it has is in the parent … and yet I got this error message.
There was missing permission in the parent category.
It would make way more sense if I was told what permissions are supposedly wrong.
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Just had the new dialog coming up stating what permission needed to be added