Visibility of assign action posts is controlled by whispers allowed groups

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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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