Search "Within this topic" works for admin but does not work for regular members

[gasman]

Hi all

I posted this a year ago, and it is still a problem

My users get zero results when they use the quick search restricted to "In This Topic".

Forum: good-music-guide.com/community
SMF 2.1.4

I have search allowed for guests, all users

Search is set to Fulltext index, and the index is created. I have enabled Force the Use of a Search Index.

All users can search the "Entire Forum", and within "This Board". 

Admin can search within "This Topic" and get good results. 

The Problem: Other users get zero results when searched within "This Topic", despite using the same search words as Admin.

All boards and all topics are visible to all users and guest.

Why does search within "This Topic" work for admin but not other users?

Cheers

[Doug Heffernan]

I got this error message when I tried to search in a topic.

You are not allowed to access this section.

[shawnb61]

Yep, confirmed.  I think this is a bug.

Guests get the not allowed message.

Regular users get a no results message.

Admins get proper results.

[Kindred]

I believe this was reported ages ago.... 

yup
https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/issues/7870


it got closed as not reproducible -- but I KNOW that I was able to reproduce this on 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 (can't find the original report on this site - but I knew it had made it to github at some point)


edit: found it
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=584342.0
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=586646.0

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=585596.0

[shawnb61]

I bet folks tested using their admin accounts....

The only one that works... 

[gasman]

Yep, Search "this topic" works fine for Admin. But I logout of Admin and logging as a regular user, and I get no results for search within "This Topic" on my forum.

Interestingly, it works fine on this SMF Community forum, and I'm just a regular member.

[GoinNutz]

I searched around and could not find any newer topics on this and I think I have something to add that might possibly be useful.

I've tested this on two different forums - one is an old forum that goes back to the SMF 1.x days and has been continuously updated to each new version since then up to the current 2.1.4, and another that is a fresh clean install starting with 2.1.4

The Search "This topic" bug wherein it works for admin users but doesn't work for regular users only happens on the old forum that started out on SMF 1.x and is now running 2.1.4

On the fresh new 2.1.4  the Search "This topic" works for both admin and regular users alike.

This makes me think that maybe the bug is somehow related to some of the code from older versions of SMF that might be getting carried through over the course of upgrades. But since I'm not a programmer by any stretch, it's just a hunch.

I wonder has anyone else tested it on a clean fresh 2.1.4 install and still encountered the issue?

[Kindred]

Thing is, THIS site has been upgraded through literally every version......

[Arantor]

This site also has a bunch of non standard changes, including to search, that make such claims suspect.

[Kindred]

Oh, that wasn't a claim so much as a statement.  I already know that this is a confirmed bug (I confirmed it on my own sites, including my fresh installed 2.1 site)

[GoinNutz]

Thanks for chiming-in guys. How strange that this bug does not occur on all SMF 2.1.x sites but obviously enough that people have reported and reproduced it. I've simply been trying to find some correlation and thought maybe I was onto something when I discovered it happens on one of the SMF sites I manage and not the other, and the main differences between the two. Neither of them have any mods installed and are basically "out of the box" SMF's.