{"id":1254853,"date":"2017-03-15T18:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/users-can-create-new-organizers-even-when-its-set-not-to\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T18:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T01:58:51","slug":"users-can-create-new-organizers-even-when-its-set-not-to","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/users-can-create-new-organizers-even-when-its-set-not-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Users can create new Organizers even when it&#039;s set not to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the feature to stop community users from not creating new Organizers is not functioning.<\/p>\n<p>I have the checkboxes set so they should not be able to create a new Organizer, but still on the create event form the placeholder text says \u201ccreate or select\u2026\u201d and if you start typing it allows you create a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot of settings:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.evernote.com\/l\/AAbyzpCjEX5CeI91BWAUqKmqrat4WYBkO7U<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be a bug related to user roles \/ access.  If I \u201callow anonymous submissions\u201d then the ability to create a new event is blocked if logged out, as it should.<\/p>\n<p>Further testing showed me that the ONLY way to prevent LOGGED IN users from creating new Organizers is to set that user\u2019s role as \u201cSubscriber\u201d.  For subscribers it works as it should\u2026. but even if I change them to a \u201cContributer\u201d they are then allowed to create new Organizers when they should not be able to according to your checkboxes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a problem because we have users that need to be at least Authors\u2026 how can we fix this so Authors do not have access to create new Organizers?<\/p>\n<p>I tested this on a fresh local install, nothing but Events Calendar plugins installed, default WP theme. 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