Report Generator - Access denied

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hi all,
I just upgraded from 2.4.8 to version OJS 3.1.1-4. I can’t seem to get access to our “Generate custom report”. When I clicked on it, I got an error message " access denied" . Please see my attachement

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Can some one please let me know how to fix this issue?

many thanks
-Peter

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Hi @Ptran

Have you checked your browser console error log and your PHP server error log?
They may show you some helpful messages regarding this issue.

Best,
Israel

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We’re experiencing this as well:

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I turned PHP warnings back on, and can now see the following appearing multiple times:

[Wed Sep 19 09:37:14.807012 2018] [php7:warn] [pid 6323] [client] PHP Warning: Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset in /data/apache-html/windsor/lib/pkp/classes/core/DataObject.inc.php on line 133, referer: https://wyaj.uwindsor.ca/index.php/wyaj/management/tools/reportGenerator

[Wed Sep 19 09:56:34.867127 2018] [php7:warn] [pid 9536] [] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset 'en_US' in /data/apache-html/windsor/lib/pkp/classes/core/DataObject.inc.php on line 133, referer: https://wyaj.uwindsor.ca/index.php/wyaj/management/tools/reportGenerator

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So it seems like PKPHandler::authorize() needs to be called in ReportGeneratorHandler.inc.php. Adding the following made it work:

	function authorize($request, &$args, $roleAssignments) {
		import('lib.pkp.classes.security.authorization.ContextAccessPolicy');
		$this->addPolicy(new ContextAccessPolicy($request, $roleAssignments));
		return parent::authorize($request, $args, $roleAssignments);
	}
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Hi all,

The issue has also been filed here: Access denied when trying to access some editorial/JM functions · Issue #4074 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

(@bart, thanks for the proposal – that’s the correct solution and I’ve committed it over on the Git issue!)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thank you, Bart!

I’ve added it at the end of my ReportGeneratorHandler.inc.php and now can generate reports!

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Thank you very much.

Correction helped me a lot.

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