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 I have a bug, and it was the same in Joomla.

If event category has set permissions to allow user group to edit, edit own, etc and component permissions set to not allow edit, edit own, etc. even though the Event is in the right category to allow the user to edit, they can not.

Steps to create;

1. create new user group "testUser"
2. create user "tester" and add to group "testUser"
3. create new category "forUser" and set permissions on this category to allow for Create, Edit, Edit Own, Edit State
4. log in to administration with "tester" and create a new event, save it under "forUser" category.
5. the event will save, but now you can not edit it in any way.

I can not find the bug report/patch in joomla, but attached is my DIFF from GIT for the 2 files I applied the fix to for this same issue regarding articles and categories

here is a link to the patch in GITHUB https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/11511/files (better than the plain text file I attached)

Thanks for trying, but assigning the user to managers is what caused the problem to not show up. AND I was not very clear, my fault. It was the end of the day...

Please remove "tester" (user) from the manager group.

Permissions for the new group "testUser" should be as follows;
Global Configuration -> Administrator Login, & Site Login allowed
Eventgallery -> Access Administration Interface allowed (NOT ANY OTHERS)

At this point, the user should be able to log in to back end, and see the Eventgallery, but not be able to add or edit anything. This is what I want.

Next, create a new Category in Eventgallery, "myEvent" and set the permissions of this category, for the group "test
User" to allowed for all (create, delete, edit, edit own, edit state)

So, now this should allow the user to do anything with events in this category. But, if the user creates an event (this works) the user can not edit that same event after it is saved.