Group Roles not inheriting from parent group

[ErinF]

Hello, 

I am having an issue with newly created child groups not inheriting the roles of the parent group. We have a parent group "HR" with the sn_hr_core.basic role, inherits is set to True. When I create a new group with HR listed as the parent, the new group does not inherit the sn_hr_core.basic role. 

I can remove the role from the parent and add back on, and it will assign the role to the new group. But once the parent is set up, no new Child groups are inheriting the role from the parent, I have to add the role manually to the child group. 

Is this expected behavior? 

[Ravi Chandra_K]

Hello @ErinF 

Greetings!

enable your "security admin" role and then grant role to the group

after granting access please logout and login once.

If you have contextual security role management plugin, apparently that's causing issue on inheriting roles.

refer below threads where similar question answered:

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-forum/why-are-group-members-not-inheriting-the-role-a...

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-forum/inherited-role/m-p/2039330/page/2

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Kind Regards,

Ravi Chandra

[ErinF]

My issue/question is not that I cannot grant the role manually to the group. That is my workaround. 

My question is if it is normal behavior to have to add manually to a new child group. I would assume that the role would automatically be inherited from the parent when the group is created. 

[Ethan Metcalf]

I'm having a similar issue. When I add a role to the parent HR group, it does not get pushed to all the child groups. I need to go to each group with HR as its parent, clean the parent field, save, and then add HR back as the parent for the roles to get added.