It sounds like you are saying that if a user does not have access to a page, they are getting a blank page with absolutely no content other than a simple "403" message in the upper left hand corner.
I'm assuming that you would prefer that they get a page that has the formatting for the rest of your site, but instead of content they get an sensible "access denied" message.
I don't have a quick answer for you, but a few questions might help:
1) Is the problem the same for unauthenticated users as well as authenticated users (assuming that they are both trying to access pages that they should not have access to)?
2) It sounds to me like the problem is with the layout. Do you have a fall-back (default) layout specified here: /admin/structure/layouts ?
Yes..that's right, but oddly, I restored an earlier database, and noted the issue disappeared ..and then when I restored the latest database, the issue did not return.
Since the restored databases exclude cache tables, I suspect it was cache related.
Amilenkov's suggestions are spot on. As for the greyed out Menu module, that's because there must be another module that depends on Menu. Core will gray out modules that cannot be disabled (e.g...
Posted6 hours 46 min ago by Alejandro Cremaschi (argiepiano) on:
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My first suspicion would be access to the destination page. Backdrop checks access when building the menu, so a link can be enabled but still be hidden...
Posted14 hours 54 min ago by Antony Milenkov (amilenkov) on:
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Barney:
It sounds like you are saying that if a user does not have access to a page, they are getting a blank page with absolutely no content other than a simple "403" message in the upper left hand corner.
I'm assuming that you would prefer that they get a page that has the formatting for the rest of your site, but instead of content they get an sensible "access denied" message.
I don't have a quick answer for you, but a few questions might help:
1) Is the problem the same for unauthenticated users as well as authenticated users (assuming that they are both trying to access pages that they should not have access to)?
2) It sounds to me like the problem is with the layout. Do you have a fall-back (default) layout specified here: /admin/structure/layouts ?
Yes..that's right, but oddly, I restored an earlier database, and noted the issue disappeared ..and then when I restored the latest database, the issue did not return.
Since the restored databases exclude cache tables, I suspect it was cache related.
Thanks a million for helping...very grateful.