Group officers unable to add members to group

I fired off an email to support on this, but posting it here just in case anyone else is experiencing the same thing, or has some ideas on what to do:

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Ever since the asset server had trouble about a week ago, our group officers have been unable to add members to our group, even though they are in the correct role, and that role has the permission "Allow invite of members to the group" set. When they attempt to add a new member to the group, the following error message is displayed: "Unable to join group. The person who invited you lacks the required group powers."

Prior to a week ago, our officers had no trouble adding members, and we have made no changes to the role functions.


The role name that this permission is assigned to is: "Officer"

Here are the exact steps they are going thru to invite members:

Edit --> Groups --> The SHELTER --> "Members & Roles" tab --> "Invite New Person..."

We had a group officer just attempt again a few moments ago to invite a member. The group invite failed with "Unable to join group. The person who invited you lacks the required group powers".

Strangely, I am able to add new group members just fine. I am not in the group owner role, but am in a custom "Founder" role, which has near-group owner powers.

We have also tested having a few of the officers leave the group, and then have me invite them back (and re-assign the proper role permissions.) This had no affect on the issue, and they are still unable to add new members to the group.

Additionally, we are noticing that one of the officer's objects that were previously set to group, now say: (waiting) in the group field instead. Countless freebies all say "waiting)" for their group association now.

Please advise how to proceed, as we obviously need to be able to invite new members.
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If anyone has any ideas, please, share!

I am having the same problem with one of my groups. I sent a bug report, but nothing was done yet.

I've been having this problem since around the time of the 1.12 update.
It's a real annoyance. I've tried using group join fees as a workaround, but I know they probably won't work in The Shelter's case as you have newbies with little/no L$.

I think when I tested it, only people with "invite to group" *and* "assign to roles" abilities could issue working invites. Not sure if that's accurate though.