Group visibilityPermissions empty after import

georgegkonis

I’m on jsreport 4.9.0 and running multiple instances. For deployments, I use the export/import workflow (jsexport → import into new instance).

The issue occurs specifically with groups:

When a group already exists in the target environment, everything works fine — imported entities correctly inherit permissions and the entity's visibilityPermissions includes the group's ID.

When a group is newly created by the import, the entities the have the group permission end up with an empty visibilityPermissions array. As a result, users in that group cannot see the entities they should.

Workarounds:

If I remove, save then re-add a permission on the group and save it again,
then visibilityPermissions is correctly populated and everything works.

I’ve tried both with and without the --fullImport flag — no difference.

It looks like the importer isn’t populating visibilityPermissions for newly created groups.

Could you confirm if this is a bug in the import/export flow, or if I’m missing a required step?

admin

Thank you.
I confirm this is a bug. I apologize for the inconvenience.

We make sure this is fixed in the next update. Not having the date, though.
Here is the gh ticket to track
https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport/issues/1257