Multiple Roles

wcroteau

Sorry if this is a newbie question everyone but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to assign multiple roles to a single user. Yes I have enabled Multiple Roles support in settings but HOW do I actually make the assignment?

vasyl

wcroteau hi there. Thank you for the question. Please check this page https://aamplugin.com/reference/plugin#multiple-roles-per-user. Just added this feature in AAM 5.9 release.

wcroteau

Thanks for the reply.

I've upgraded to AAM 5.9 but am still experiencing issues.

I have now created two test roles and a test user (TestRoleA, TestRoleB, TestUser) and have assigned BOTH roles to TestUser.

The roles are being used to limit page access so I have two test pages (TestPageA, TestPageB). I have used AAM to "limit" access to both test pages for Default but I have granted access to TestPageA for TestRoleA and to page TestPageB for TestRoleB.

This scheme works well and functions as expected when I assign only ONE role to TestUser. However it DENIES access to BOTH pages when I assign both roles. I want the exact opposite - the user should gain access if ANY role allows it.

Furthermore, I have read and set the ConfigPress settings as per this post post: https://aamplugin.com/article/wordpress-access-control-for-users-with-multiple-roles

But it doesn't seem to have taken effect...

Must I somehow "enable" the ConfigPress changes I made?

Thanks!
Bill

vasyl

wcroteau hi Bill. Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I was literally following your step-by-step explanation and was not able to replicate the issue.

Here is my ConfigPress setup:

[aam]
core.settings.post.merge.preference = "allow"

My assumption is that you probably did not clear AAM Cache after you defined ConfigPress.

Keep me updated.
Regards,
Vasyl

wcroteau

Hi Vasyl,

It is now working. Not sure if it was a cache issue OR the fact that I upgraded to 5.9.1.1 - either way it's working now.

Thanks!
Bill

cleanupnetwork

Hello,

I have the exact same problem. I have to user roles. Role A has access to the backend and Role B has no access to the backend. Both roles are assigned to a user. For testing purposes I added all the configpress option mentioned here https://aamplugin.com/article/wordpress-access-control-for-users-with-multiple-roles but it seems that is as no effect.

Then I tryed to follow your suggestions regrding the cache in this thread but your link is broken I think. I googled another article from you https://aamplugin.com/help/how-does-aam-cache-works and tried to disable the cache. But the user still can not access the backend.

Any idea on what to check?

Greets
Thomas

vasyl

cleanupnetwork this thread is quite outdated and most of the information here is not applicable to AAM 6. Please clarify how do you restrict access to the backend. Do you use capability aam_access_dashboard? If that is the case, then AAM does not control how capabilities are merged with multiple roles assigned to user. This is something that WordPress core does and it actually does not do it properly. The last role basically overrides all previous roles.

Keep me posted.
Vasyl

cleanupnetwork

vasyl Thank you for clarification. Yes, I use aam_access_dashboard. How can I define the "last" role?

vasyl

cleanupnetwork the method does not give 100% guarantee, but you can do the following. Go to edit user profile and unselect all roles except the one that should go first.

Save profile and then select the second role and save again. The last role that you've selected, most likely will be the last role on the list of user roles.

Regards,
Vasyl