Unable to edit a survey

techAPJ · May 6, 2026, 7:23am

Thanks for reporting this bug @putty. Should be fixed via this commit:

FIX: allow staff to edit surveys after post ownership transfer (#94)

committed 07:14AM - 06 May 26 UTC

* FIX: allow staff to edit surveys after post ownership transfer The post valid…ator checked the post **owner** (`@post.user.staff?`) instead of the user performing the edit. After ownership transfer to a non-staff user, even staff editors were blocked, and they saw a raw `Translation missing: en.survey.insufficient_rights_to_create` because that key was missing from `server.en.yml`. **Changes:** - Validate `@post.acting_user` (falls back to `@post.user` on create). - Add the missing `survey.insufficient_rights_to_create` translation. - Add specs covering create permissions and edits across ownership transfers. * fix specs

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Unable to edit a survey

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