Search not finding results if logged in with a 'user' user account


(Ben Chapman) #1

Squiz Matrix v5.4.0.2

I have created a password protected section on my website with access for a group of ‘user’ user accounts. In that section, I have an asset listing page. I have created a search page to search this asset listing page and have added a search field to the asset listing page.

This all works quite nicely. I can enter a keyword in the search field and am taken to the results page showing all the assets with that keyword.

However, this only seems to work when I am logged in using my admin account. If I log in as a user with read access to the password protected section, my search fails, coming up with no results.

This is clearly a permissions problem, but I can’t work out where the permissions are failing. The user accounts all have read access to the listed assets, so I would expect that the search should have sufficient permission to access these assets.

If I change the permissions on the assets to give read access to ‘public user’, then the search succeeds.


(Bart Banda) #2

Have you got Perform Group Access Check set to Yes on the Search Page? And Search as Public User set to No?


(Ben Chapman) #3

Thanks Bart. I changed those settings and the search appears to be working properly now.