I defined a new role (Parent), but this role cannot see Front Page News

I defined a new role (Parent), but this role cannot see Front Page News

by Erin Billy -
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I have seen several posts about this problem, but they seem to be pretty old. I have tried various combinations of settings without luck.

Basically I created a Parent role (for parents to see their kids' reports). It's working well, but when I test it with my test parent account, the Front Page news doesn't display. Instead, they get this message:

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Wednesday, December 31, 1969, 4:00 PM
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For Front page settings > Default frontpage role, I have it set to None. I have tried changing some permissions in the new parent role (eg, mod/forum:viewdiscussion), but that hasn't changed anything.

I know I'm missing something obvious, but I'm stuck now. Any thoughts?

Thank you!


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Re: I defined a new role (Parent), but this role cannot see Front Page News

by Beatriz Rojo -
Hi Erin,
have you tried in Front page settings > Default frontpage role, selecting Authenticated User?
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Re: I defined a new role (Parent), but this role cannot see Front Page News

by Giovanni Vosloo -
Hi Erin,

+1 to the response from Beatriz. Ever user must be authenticated user and whatever role you give them, just make sure it is set that way.
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Re: I defined a new role (Parent), but this role cannot see Front Page News

by Erin Billy -
Thanks!
I did want to try that, but I don't have that option available to me. (Not sure whether it has anything to do with my theme or version.)

Here's what I see:


I did try choosing 'student' as the default frontpage role, but that didn't change anything.
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