[rt-users] The ShowSavedSearches right and a patch for SavedSearches.pm

[Kenneth Crocker]

William,


	We grant all the search rights globally to all Privileged users. 
Because we limit queue access at the group level, any privileged user in 
a group that has access to a queue can see, load, save, etc any search 
created and used by any member in that group. We really haven't had any 
trouble with that setup at all. It certainly is a lot less maintenance 
than trying to grant all those privileges on a user/queue basis. Hope 
this helps.

Kenn
LBNL

On 6/17/2008 2:56 PM, William J. Horka wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Does anyone have experience with granting the ShowSavedSearches right? I 
> found that it wasn't working as I expected and posted this question and 
> patch to the rt-devel list back in February and got no response. I 
> noticed that the behavior is still the same in RT 3.6.7, so I was hoping 
> that someone else in the user community might be able to tell me if I'm 
> misinterpreting the documentation or if the patched behavior is preferable.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>      -Bill
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: SavedSearches.pm and the ShowSavedSearches right
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:40:56 -0500
> From: William J. Horka <whorka at hmdc.harvard.edu>
> To: rt-devel at lists.bestpractical.com
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I may be misinterpreting the documentation, but it appears to be that RT
> is not behaving as documented with respect to the ShowSavedSearches
> group right.
> 
> According to the RT wiki, "A user who has the ShowSavedSearches right to
> a group is able to see/load the saved searches of that group. The user
> must also have the global LoadSavedSearch right."
> 
> However, in practice, it seems that the function
> RT::SavedSearches::_PrivacyObjects which "returns a list of objects that
> can be used to load saved searches from" does not select the group
> objects based on the user having the ShowSavedSearches group right, but
> rather selects them based on whether the user is a member of the group.
> 
> I've verified that the relevant code in
> RT::SavedSearches::_PrivacyObjects is identical in the subversion
> 3.6-RELEASE and 3.7-EXPERIMENTAL branches, so this doesn't appear to
> have been yet identified as a bug.
> 
> The attached patch reflects the behavior I would expect to see based on
> the documentation. Does this look correct?
> 
>       -Bill
> 
> 
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