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I created a new user role called “IC”, as a duplicate of the TimeToGlow2012InnerCircle role (my top-level user role, which should have access to ALL forums). 

I created a new WishList Member membership level, also called IC, set to the IC user role.

I created a new member, to test. 

I ALSO created a new global permission set, granting the IC user role Standard Access to ALL forums. 

STILL, when my  new IC user is logged in, they are DENIED access to both the Time to Glow 2012 and the Inner Circle forums.

I even tried pasting the URL for the forums in question into my browser, when logged in as a test user, and in all cases I got the following message:

“Access denied – you do not have permission to view this page”

Help! The users DO have permission to view this page, so I don’t understand why they are being denied access.

More info:

I did a search of my S:P members by clicking on the “Members” link inside my S:P forum, and discovered that TWO of my Inner Circle members are listed as Inner Circle members inside my S:P member list.

ie, here:

http://creativeignitionclub.com/forum/members/

One of these members has been able to post in the Inner Circle forum, so YAY — this is good!

Here’s the weird thing: THAT member is ALSO shown as a “Member” (default usergroup) AND a “TimeToGlow2012” member in addition to being an “Inner Circle” member — and this despite the fact that in WishList Member I REMOVED the Member and TimeToGlow2012 membership levels from her membership (because I thought being in multiple membership levels might be interfering with members’ abilities to access the private forum).

It seems that WishList and S:P are not communicating with each other, because there are two OTHER Inner Circle members (who are set as Inner Circle members inside WishList, with the corresponding TimeToGlow2012InnerCircle WP role), but these two are NOT appearing as Inner Circle members inside my S:P member list.

The fact that they are not listed as Inner Circle members inside my S:P member list would explain why they are unable to see the Inner Circle forum. Now the question is how do I set them AS Inner Circle members inside S:P??? They are already set as Inner Circle members inside WishList Member, but that has obviously done nothing.

Any suggestions?

OKAY!

I figured out that somehow the users who were not able to view the forums they were SUPPOSED to have access to had somehow not been set to the appropriate usergroups inside S:P.

Once I figured this out, I went into S:P Forum > Users > Member Information and checked to see what Memberships each user was set to. For the users that did NOT have a Membership in the denied forums, I clicked to view their profile, then clicked to edit their profile to ADD the missing Membership inside their Usergroups tab (which I had to “show” via the Profiles > Profile Tabs & Menus tab inside S:P forum admin, since I had it hidden.)

UPSHOT: The disaster is temporarily fixed. HOWEVER, I still don’t know why my members were inappropriately kept OUT of Memberships/Usergroups that they should have been automatically put IN to, via WishList Member. It appears S:P and WL Member are not communicating correctly with each other. 

At the moment, with a very small membership community, setting Memberships by hand inside S:P forum admin is doable, but this would NOT be very feasible with a large community (which, of course, I hope to grow mine into!)

Any help you can offer would bo soooooo appreciated! I will also post this to the WishList support forums.

Thank you.

wow, lots of posts!

have you read codex help on membership configuration: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-to/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-to-configure-simple-press-with-membership-plugin/

basically, you need to have a wishlist level per wp role… then map the wp role to sp usergroup… and control access to forums via the sp usergroup and a permission set…

wishlist and simple press work great together out of the box – its what we use here…

please note, that the auto mapping only works for new members… you will have to do as you did for existing members…  SP 5.1 will include a new feature that allows you to enforce (if  you will) the mapping at any point on all members with the click of a button…

please review the codex and let me know if you still have issues if you have it configured correctly…

Yes, as I wrote in my (admittedly wordy) posts above, I set everything up exactly as you said I should. The problem is that WishList Member and S:P and WP User Roles plugin do not seem to be communicating correctly, so members (new!) who are supposed to have access to private forums are being denied access until I go into S:P forum admin and add them by hand.

I wrote EVERYTHING that was happening as clearly as I could above. It’s all there.

Thanks for any additional help you can provide.

okay, I have reread the above… an nowhere does it same you actually went to forum – options – member settings and connected the mapping of your wp roles to the sp usergroups…  which is why I have asked if things are configured correctly…

we do have hundreds of users using wp, wishlist and sp together with this all working fine…  so we just need to figure out what is going on locally for you… hence again, my questions about confirming the set up…

so please confirm that…

and then if you want to shoot me a temp account with wp admin and sp admin caps, I can take a closer look… understand if that is not doable…

Thanks, Mr. Papa. And yes, I already had those settings in Forums > Options > Member Settings set correctly. Screenshot attached.

Are there some other settings that I’m not aware of? Something is clearly not communicating correctly, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s user error, but I’m damned if I can figure it out!

Thanks.

are you using forum ranks which can also change a members usergroup?

and now, with it all set up, if you create a user from the wp admin, and give it the desired wp role, what usergroup does that user end up in?

for this test, dont worry about wishlist level because the ONLY thing wishlist has to do with this is give the user the wp role.. there is no communication per se between wishlist and sp…  doesnt need to be… we communicate with wp… and when user gets a wp role, they should get an sp usergroup…