Drupal 8, Media, and incompatibility with a common "group" module configuration

Created on 8 May 2020, about 4 years ago

Updated 9 September 2023, 10 months ago

If you have a Drupal site that is leveraging the group module, a common permissions setup is that users do not have the general Drupal permission to create certain node types (let's say: Basic Page). However, they CAN create the content type in a group! This is so they can't create "orphan" content with no parent group.

When you have media configured on a field, and a user without the general Drupal permission to create a content type goes to upload media onto a field, you get an AJAX error on file submission for upload. It's because MediaLibraryFieldWidgetOpener::checkAccess checks to see if the user has global permission to create the node in question.

No good ideas for a general solution offhand. I was able to resolve this with a custom patch that adjusts the check for our needs, but I've got no other ideas offhand. Group has some information stashed and available in $form_state that perhaps could be made accessible? Perhaps a custom alter option?

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Status

Closed: cannot reproduce

Version

9.5

Component

Media →

Last updated about 16 hours ago

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🇺🇸United States jnicola

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Comment 11 months ago →
🇳🇱Netherlands Lendude Amsterdam
Is there any way to reproduce this with just core? (probably not right?) Is this still an issue? Group media seems to have addressed this issue in 🐛 Groupmedia is not checking group permissions but site permissions when adding media entities via media library Fixed , but not sure if that was also the module that was causing these issues
Status changed to Closed: cannot reproduce 10 months ago3:21pm 9 September 2023
Comment 10 months ago →
🇺🇸United States Chris Matthews
Steps to reproduce → just with Drupal core have not been provided and this seems to be related to the Group → and/or Group Media → contrib modules so closing this issue accordingly. If steps to reproduce as a Drupal core issue can be provided then please feel free to reopen.

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