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I created a user for our clients with a stripped down backend and assigned them the admin role.

When I edit an entry with that admin it changes the status to closed, and there is no way to change it unless I log in with my superadmin account.
Similarly when I create a new post it has its status as closed.

I checked permissions, and they have full permission:

Can edit entries authored by others   Yes

I havent changed any of their permissions, just what is on the admin page (see attached).

alvarilio,

You need to assign a Status Group to your Channels under their group assignments on the Channel Management Page

Great, I went to:
Administration > Channel Management > Edit Group Assignments
one by one for each of the channels and changed status group from None to Statuses.

Now the new user has the ability to create content and change statuses.

Would you mind explaining to me the logic behind what I just did?

Thanks!

Hi, alvarilio. SuperAdmins have the ability to do everything, but other member groups don’t, unless you let them. So when you didn’t have a status group set, EE erred on the side of caution, and made the entry closed. Once you set the status group, the other groups can save entries as open.

Does that help?

We just ran into this same issue.  My question is “what is a status group”?.  Is there a good security reference on this software we can read?

Welcome to the ExpressionEngine forums, dnorris.

A status group is a method of assigning a status to a particular entry, EE comes with a default status group with the value of Open and Closed. This is one way you can have content that is only visible to certain member groups and not others.

For more info, see this page in the docs: Getting Started

Scroll down to the section about Statuses.

Does that help?