[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17394: Network Admin -> Sites -> Users not report correctly

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#17394: Network Admin -> Sites -> Users not report correctly
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 Reporter:  whiteatom      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:
Component:  Network Admin  |     Version:  3.1.2
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:                 |
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Comment (by whiteatom):

 I'm not confused.. but 'm quite sure you're not quite getting what I mean.
 I don't mean to be insulting, but I can reproduce this problem over and
 over.. I promise you it is a real bug. Forget the Registration Admin and
 Office Roles.. just look at my example plugin that just adds the test role
 - the full plugin is attached so you can try it out.

 Follow this process and you can see the issue I am referring to.

 1. Add this plugin to your plugins folder, create a new subsite, go to the
 dashboard and activate the plugin in the new subsite. [[BR]]
 2. Now, go back to the network admin, go to Sites and Edit your new site.
 [[BR]]
 3. Click on Users and add an existing user (or a new user) to this new
 subsite with the role Test. [[BR]]
 4. It says 'User Added', but they don't show up in the list. The All(#)
 shows the extra user, but you cannot see them in the list.[[BR]]
 5. If you go back to the Sites page, you can see the user name listed
 beside your subsite. [[BR]]
 6. If you go to the Dashboard for the subsite, you can see the user and
 the role.

 Now, the move that convinced me that this is an issue with the Network
 Admin running in the context of the root site.

 1. Go to the dashboard of your root site, and activate the plugin. [[BR]]
 2. Now go back to the network admin and Edit the subsite, and the user
 will magically appear.

 The bug seems to be that the network admin only looks at it's own
 environment when showing the users list for subsites. For roles that exist
 in the subsite, but not the root site, the users are not displayed - I
 believe this to be the bug.

 For me, I am running a multisite environment that does event management,
 so the root site isn't even used, only the event specific subsites are
 used. I have heavily extended wordpress with a variety of roles based on
 the needs of each event - several of these conflicting with roles used in
 a different event. In each dashboard, this is fine, but in the Network
 Admin users are missing. Because of the conflicts, I cannot install all
 the event plugins into one site ( my root site), so I have had to write a
 custom plugin that adds each unique role to the root site, just so I can
 see the users in the list on the Network Admin.

 I assure you this is a bug. I understand that you probably get lots of
 people who don't understand how to use this package correctly and call
 every mistake they make a bug. I hope that after running through this
 example with this simple plugin, you will see what I am referring to and
 reopen this ticket yourself. If you cannot see the problem I'm referring
 to, please comment and I will do a screen capture to demo it.

 Cheers.

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