Unable to logon as researcher after participating as participant

[TjerkNan]

Describe the bug
After you particpate in a data donation flow, you are unable to access the Sign in button on the top right.
When you access the actual url /user/sigin 'nothing happens'.

Closing the browser application or using a private window circumvents this issue.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Participate in data donation flow
2. Observe that Signin button is gone
3. Observe that /usr/signin isn't working.

Expected behavior
Sign in always works.

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[mellelieuwes]

@TjerkNan The participant is an anonymous user that is technically signed in. This is by design.

You can log out the participant by going to /user/profile.

Does this help?

[TjerkNan]

@mellelieuwes yes that workaround works indeed. So should the solution be that we instruct/document this behaviour?

[mellelieuwes]

@TjerkNan profile/logout is a hidden participant feature to not distract the participant. The participant does not need to logout.

So it is only needed when a creator tests the (anonymous) participant flow and want to go back to the creator account on the same browser.

Sometimes clients have this issue when testing the flow.

Do you have a suggestion where to document it? Or change the UX so it can be prevented?

[mellelieuwes]

@TjerkNan I have fixed this issue by remove the user from the session when:

• User is external user (anonymous)
• Request path is outside of external user space. Only /assignment/<number> considered is a valid request path.

This means If you now click on the top left Next logo (opens home page) or manually go to for example /project or /user/signin the anonymous participant is signed out out first.

[TjerkNan]

After donating as anonymous, the sign-in page is visible again after clicking on next logo. As a participant being logged in it works too, but I will be logged out, seems OK to me.