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Mods can see Admin posts in Search results
Topic Started: Jun 24 2011, 08:14 PM (447 Views)
FOS
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I'd imagine this was noted long before now, but nothing came up when I searched prior to posting.

I was searching for something on our Moderators' forum, and noticed that the results contained posts that were made on the Admin forum. I tried logging in with a test Moderator account, and again I could see the posts which should only be visible to Administrators. Obviously they're denied access if they click to view the thread/s the post/s originated from. But that's little comfort when they've already seen content which the permission masks are supposed to protect.
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FOS
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Problem solved. The Admin posts only appeared in the search results because they'd been moved there from the Mods' forum recently. Now that everything has updated, they don't show up (for Mods) in the results any more. :)
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The search index is a lot like Google or Bing. It will grab a copy at a given time and that copy will remain indexed until the next reindexing (24 hours at most) finds that it is not viewable anymore.
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