If you have applications set to "Private", then the applications are made as private threads targeting only those users who have the permissions at the time.
With the recent changes, the officers should be able to see future applications.
Otherwise, you'll have to go into each application's thread and modify the private thread's access list.
Make sense?
The alternative is to set them to non-private, which means they'll still retain the permissions of the target thread tags, but with the added bonus (depending on your perspective) of giving newly promoted officers access to previous applications.
If they go into the forums, they can view them that way. They just can't view them using the app admin (adminappreport.php). It used to work, but I changed DKP and Site layout options in the feature access to a rank higher than officer. These shouldn't have anything to do with viewing apps, should it?
Some of the officers have full admin privs, but for whatever reason, they're still blocked.
I see. Looking at your site, there are no applications there anymore. The threads are still there, but the application records themselves must have been deleted. I just posted a test app and it's showing up for me. Is it showing for you or anyone else?
Ok with my account rank of 2, I can view them fine.
If I login to my test officer account rank 5, I see the red popup at the bottom, but when I click the link, it says I do not have access to view the page.
I had completely forgotten about that link in there. I have it disabled because it's on the top menu and I didn't want it showing up top as it's already too cluttered.
It's working fine now. Sorry, didn't mean to send you on a wild goose chase. Maybe one day the permissions can all be set from the feature access page?