topic Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group in ThingWorx Developers

Menu items showing for users not in user group

JustinOberle1 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:05:00 GMT

I have a menu with a user group assigned to each menu item as follows..

There are no users in the test group, and only a few users in the tampa group. However, I am still able to see these menu items in the UI when I sign in. I have tried non-admin user's as well as admin. All users can still see these menu items. What is wrong here? Shouldn't these items be restricted to the user within these groups?

This is version 9.0.4

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

nmutter — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:35:49 GMT

How are you referencing this menu entity in the mashup? In a menu widget directly referencing the menu?

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

JustinOberle1 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 22:25:52 GMT

That is correct.

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

nmutter — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:51:42 GMT

okay. It should be working like this. Not sure exactly if Admin will see all entries anyway (I assume so) - but you mentioned you checked with none admins.

I am not sure if there maybe an issue in the TWX version you reference.

But to make sure: Could you validate again that you reference the correct menu? As I also already debugged some stuff but noticed that I checked on the wrong entitiy.

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

javed_a — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:52:43 GMT

You may try checking permission assigned to user on particular entity.

Also, on individual entity check the permission and it should not be everyone.

Try creating a new test user and make sure, it should not be part of any user group which might have admin rights.
On project level, add visibility only to Org.

Thanks!

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

PaiChung — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:19:00 GMT

In case it is permissions, have you checked the application log for any messages in that regard?

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

JustinOberle1 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:35:45 GMT

I am referencing the correct menu. I even unbound it and rebound it to make sure it wasn't a weird bug in TWX. My test user that I just created doesn't have any permissions and is not associated with any groups, yet this user still sees the menu.

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

JustinOberle1 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:37:55 GMT

I have done done all of these things already. Thank you. I have a created a new user with no permissions/groups and this user still sees the menu.

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

JustinOberle1 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:38:23 GMT

No messages on the application logs.

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

nmutter — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:00:47 GMT

could you call

result = Users["yourTestUser"].GetGroups()

in a custom service and check the result if only the expected groups are present? just to make sure that its not inheriting groups from somewhere.

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

PaiChung — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:12:25 GMT

Saw someone post this somewhere else: 'check actual user permissions via "Access Report" feature on the mashup' maybe that will help shed some light.

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

nmutter — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:15:35 GMT

AccessReport will not be much help as it will only report on the "menu" entity but not on the items in the menu itself.

Edit: I am also not sure since which TWX version the report exists. 9.0.x is already quite old.

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

JustinOberle1 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:29:10 GMT

This was the issue. The user is a part of a user group called users when created. However, users is in the administrator user group. Thanks!

Re: Menu items showing for users not in user group

JA_11643382 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:29:12 GMT

@nmutter wrote:
could you call
result = Users["yourTestUser"].GetGroups()
in a custom service and check the result if only the expected groups are present? just to make sure that its not inheriting groups from somewhere.

Thanks for giving solution. I also have this problem. It was helpful.