Permission override from frontend

Hi, on a website with flexiContent, the client uses permissions on item levels, as in:

• Global: all users of group "Authors" can edit their own
• Global: users of group "Authors" can not edit the permissions, so the FC item frontend form adds a hidden field for the permissions named "rules" with a zero value
• Specific item: Users of a subgroup of Authors can edit this item even if not their own

Problem is: when a user of that subgroup edits an item in the frontend, the permissions are overridden so he loses the right to edit by his own action. I tried removing that field, but the code in the background seems to override anyway.

In my opinion, if overriding a field is not allowed, it should also not be possible to delete the values, they should just stay untouched.

I solved the problem now with an html override for the item's frontend form in which I display the rules and hide them via css to still send the values, but this is obviously not the best solution... Did I miss a setting or what do you think about it?

Hello

the ACL permissions work like this:

if you explicilty deny "edit" in any parent category then the items in any sub-categories are not editable, this is the way that Joomla ACL is implemented,

so what you describle is the normal / expected behaviour (that is if i understood you correctly) ??

to be able to allow editing of sub-categories, set your top parent category to "not-set" that is soft-deny that can be overriden, reads Joomla ACL docs for more information