Worfklow's editor user cannot edit content items

Question

I have created a custom workflow with four steps and created three roles to access the website, editor, reviewer and publisher.

I gave every user the proper role and needed permissions, however the user cannot edit any item under the content tree and all fields look grey out.

below is how the role's permissions are set

Can you help?

Answer 1

When you assign a workflow to an item, the user must have some special rights for the workflow too, not only for the item. In your case, to be able to edit the item, your editor must have "Workflow state write" for the current state of the item to be able to edit the item.

Sitecore defines three workflow specific access rights.

• Workflow State Delete — controls whether or not a user can delete items which are currently associated with a specific workflow state
• Workflow State Write controls whether or not a user can update items which are currently associated with a specific workflow state.
• Workflow Command Execute — controls whether or not a user is shown specific workflow commands.

Extracted from section 3.4 of this old but still valid document

Answer 2

The solution was to add Habitat roles to the membership of the users,

After adding the required roles, I was able to edit and modify content items normally