Sidebar weird behavior when course is not completly live/scheduled

[mariajgrimaldi]

Expected behavior

As a user, I want to be able to navigate between sections if I'm on the locked unit so that I can easily return to the section with the prerequisite and finish the assignment

Actual behavior

As a user, I CANNOT navigate between sections if I'm on the locked unit so that I have to return to the outline and spend additional time trying to figure out what is going on

Steps to reproduce

1. Enrol into the course with subsections with prerequisites (I created this one for test).
2. Start with any subsection.
3. Go to the "locked unit" - with the pre-requisite on the subsection.
4. There are no sections and subsections, just a "course outline".

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Additional information

I'm testing it with the staff user, through Audit mode (maybe it affects smth).

As a student, this happened: openedx/wg-build-test-release#363 (comment). I don't think this is related to the sidebar itself.

This issue was reported as part of the redwood testing process: #1385

[mariajgrimaldi]

@crathbun428 helped us test even further and found:

I tested this as a student and got the same error message. I went into the course in studio as staff and published and scheduled everything that had not been published or scheduled for the course (most of the locked and prerequisite units). Once everything in the course was published and scheduled, this weird behavior did not appear for either the learner account or the staff/admin account. This behavior only appears when there are locked or prerequisite units that haven't been scheduled in the course.

So I'm opening this issue in case this shouldn't be happening.

[mariajgrimaldi]

FYI @arbrandes @brian-smith-tcril @openedx/2u-infinity, please tag anyone you think can help. Thanks!

[mariajgrimaldi]

@GlugovGrGlib: do you have any insights on this issue? We'd much appreciate it!

[GlugovGrGlib]

Sorry, missed this one, will look into it latter next week

[mariajgrimaldi]

Hey @GlugovGrGlib, let me know if you have any updates on this issue. I'll assign it to you for the time being. If you can't work on it, you can unassign yourself. Thanks!