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Document Library oddity

shieldfire
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
As a noob I got confused if this is expected behaviour:

* I create a Site called ChessClub
* I upload a few documents to ChessClub
* I add a test user as member to the site
* I set permissions on a document in ChessClub to Collaborator (access)
* I give the my test user the role Collaborator

Now I log in as my test user

* Clicking DocumentLibrary I see no documents at all.
* Trying to add a document I add one using the Google Docs feature, document is created and saved

Now I log in as my regular user

* All my previously uploaded documents "are gone" (not visible)
* I do see the document from the collaborator (test user)

Is this expected? To me it seems a bit weird.
If it is in fact weird, what can have gone wrong? How do I get my original documents back? (short of re-uploading them).
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jpotts
World-Class Innovator
World-Class Innovator
I suspect that when you set the permissions you may have inadvertently set the permissions on the parent folder to allow *only* the test user access thus locking out your regular user. To test this, log in as admin and confirm that the administrator can see everything. Then undo your permissions change and try again.

Jeff

shieldfire
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
No, I only see the one uploaded doc by the test user.

shieldfire
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
It's been solved - something odd must've happened. Now it works properly and as expected.