Bug: Using %WEB% in group names

Group names cannot be defined using %WEB%. That would help defining group access/change restrictions for webs, if having a policy of groups named after the Web's name, for instance %WEB%Group or %WEB%AdminGroup.

Test case

Say we're in a Web called Myweb. Setting for instance a WebPreferences ALLOWWEBCHANGE to the value "Main.%WEB%AdminGroup" won't allow users belonging to a group named MywebAdminGroup to modify the web's content.

Environment

-- OlivierBerger - 23 Feb 2005

Impact and Available Solutions

Follow up

Fix record

The following patch proposes a solution for CairoRelease : patch_Prefs.pm.diff

Discussion

At our site, we're creating webs using templates and constructing some groups automatically with default access and change protections using %WEB% in the groups names in WebPreferences, but we found out that it wouldn't work : users permissions would only be correct if the group names were "absolute"... applying the patch seems to solve the issue, then greatly helping to lighten the web creation process. -- OlivierBerger - 23 Feb 2005