[Bug] Recent articles in content menu in backend empty for non-root

[ToBe998]

Inside Bolt's backend, on the content menu (the dark part on the left, starting with "overview") shows entries for each contenttype. When you hover over a contenttype there, it will shows a link for the contenttypes overview and a link to create a new item.
Below those two, you can see a list of the most recently edited articles.

Problem
The list is correctly showing recent items when logged in as a root user, but is empty for non-root users (in my example a chief-editor.

The permissions.yml is untouched in this example.

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• Relevant Bolt Version: 3.4.7
• Install type: Composer install
• PHP version: 5.6
• Used web server: Apache 2.4
• For UX/UI issues: Chrome

Reproduction

• Make sure you have a couple of edited items in at least one contenttype
• Login as *root user and hover over that contenttypes menu -> The recent items show up
• Logout
• Login as user with chief-editor role and hover over that contenttypes menu -> The recent items are empty

[ToBe998]

I did some debugging and could at least see that:

• The recent items get loaded from storage and added to the menu entry
• The items get the permission "contenttype:"
• The items arrive inside the menu builder

that's as far as i got

[bobdenotter]

I can confirm this behaviour. I'll see if I can figure out where it goes wrong.

Good find, @ToBe998 👍

[bobdenotter]

Turns out this is a duplicate of the dreaded "Configuration error: Permission 'everyone' is not granted to any roles. You should add a role for this permission to permissions.yml. (5 minutes ago)" issue..

Still digging..

[ToBe998]

Is there some hack for the permissions.yml to fix this in Bolt 3.4 too?

[jadwigo]

Probably by adding a single line to your permissions.yml as in the change: 7963589

global:
    checks: [ admin, developer ]

[bobdenotter]

@ToBe998 In addition to that, add everyone: [ everyone ] to make other users also see the "latest entries".