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[Aaron Wells <1429505@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple more options:

4. Same as #1 (remove the page from the watchlist when you lose access
to it), but we also send the watcher a notification message that says
"Page X on your watchlist, has been deleted or is no longer visible to
you."

5. We retain the record for the page on their watchlist, but we simply
hide the page from displaying on the watchlist block, and we don't send
them any notifications about it. This solution has the advantage that,
if the page becomes accessible to them again, it re-appears on their
watchlist.

6. The same as #5, but with notifications to say "Page X you were
watching has been deleted or is no longer visible to you" when the page
goes away, and another notification to say, "Page X you were watching
and which you lost access to, is now visible to you again."

I think I favor option #5 (just make the inaccessible watched page
invisible), but... for technical reasons it might be tricky to implement
it along with paginating the watchlist block. We'd have to incorporate
the access control calculations into the paginated SQL!

I also think that we should implement option #3 at some point.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1429505

Title:
  Page stays on watchlist after you lose access

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  New

Bug description:
  When a user removes access to a page that is on your watchlist, you
  don't have the possibility to take it off the watchlist anymore. There
  are two possibilities that I can see:

  1. Remove a page from the watchlist automatically when you lose access
  to it. This is not ideal because the watchlist owner doesn't know
  directly why the page was removed.

  2. "Grey out" the link to the page (remove the link) to which you
  don't have access anymore and allow the watchlist owner to remove it
  entirely. This would require though that a delete button is placed
  into the block which we currently don't have.

  3. Create a proper watchlist management screen where you can edit
  pages on the watchlist, i.e. remove them or even sort them.

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