Updating User (from user-permissions) with other entities

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Hi all.

I came up to a small hurdle using Strapi V4 and connecting entities to the User. ( REST API )

The thing is that I have for an example: favouriteVendor on User with the ( User has more favouriteVendors connection ) and I want to create a vendor and after creation connect it to the User on that key.

I’ve been sifting through the docs and I’ve tried everything to connect a new vendor to the User entity but it simply ignores the update and on the Strapi Admin side I see the Vendor created but the User side favouriteVendors is empty.

What am I missing here? Is there something with the Permissions ( but I’ve set the find and findOne for auth role )?

Any help would be much appreciated and more than welcome. Or even a pointer into the right direction.

Cheers.

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did you check in the permissions? might be related to that.

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you need to update the permissions and add “update” to user-permissions-role

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Hi <@267689263246606336> thanks for the response. My user permissions have:

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So with the permissions I should be covered. It’s just a pain that the update goes through but no error is thrown if the connection doesn’t get established - or if permissions are missing.

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Yeah it’s just silent

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Maybe you can put the relation as required, not sure it’s an option though

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Hmmm. Well the Admin Panel and the content Type Builder don’t have a setting to make it required. Is there a possibility to configure the user-permissions plugin? All I see in the docs are the config for jwt, registration, validationRules but nothing that would point to all the config properties.

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Hmm :thinking: i don’t know about this

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I hope the docs get updated with this stuff :smile: And that the user-permissions won’t be so silent :smile:

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there might be a way doing it in lifecycle

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on a beforeCreate/beforeUpdate

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seems you can add manually "required": true on your schema.json file ^^

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Thanks for the info. Do you think that it will then let the connection be made?

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For anybody trying to get something like this working:

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it ain’t perfect I would say but works :smile: