First off I’m not entirely sure if this is a bug or a problem with my internet connection which is acting up a lot lately or intended behavior.

I noticed today when trying something out that if I follow these steps then something weird happens.

Step 1
Just one Super Admin user in the system. Stock install of 1.6.6 - 20081114
Created an entry and obviously the Super Admin account was set as the author in the Author drop-down.

Step 2
I created a new user, this one in the Members group and set their Member Preferences to allow them to be shown in the author drop-down list.

Step 3
Went back and edited the entry which is currently set to the Super Admin account and selected the new user from the Members group as the author.

Step 4
If I now go back into editing the entry I only get the user from the Members group showing in the author drop-down list where I would have thought I should see both the Super Admin user no matter what and the user from the Members group that I recently changed it to.

If I go into the Super Admin users account and allow them to be shown in the drop-down author list then they show up again but I thought that they should show up anyway seeing as how they are a Super Admin.

Is this just me doing something silly or just expecting something in my mind and I am wrong in what I am thinking?

Best wishes,

Mark

I wouldn’t call this one a bug, Mark.  It’s behaving as expected.  Granted- Superadmins are ‘super’ in almost every respect, but I’m not sure it would be desirable to have them effectively on the ‘multi-author’ list by default. 

You might consider a feature request for it, but I know most of the sites I’ve worked on, it would be confusing for folks to have me showing up in the author dropdown.

Make sense?

Robin Sowell - 01 December 2008 05:00 PM

Make sense?

Yes and no

I think what got me was because if you don’t have anyone else in the system then the Super Admin is automatically made the author on everything so usability-wise as I saw them as being able to be the author when I then added in a new user and they disappeared it confused my little brain a bit

No need for a Feature Request unless someone else wants this but I just saw it that if they are able to be the author when no-one else is in the system then something must be setting that somewhere and then when I added the new user they disappeared which I just found a little confuddling, but as I say I’m getting older so things do confuse me more and more day by day

Thanks for the confirmation that it isn’t a bug though. Please feel free to close this one out if you like.

Best wishes,

Mark

I’ve had this happen on a few sites too, where I expected to have the SuperAdmin in the drop down.

Don’t hesitate to post again if needed.