Cannot Unlock a Locked Object Copied or inherited from a Master Page

[walt.farrell]

Recipe:

1. Create a document with a Master Page in Publisher 2 (either 2.0.4, or 2.1.0.1732 Beta).
2. Add an item to the Master Page. I used a Rectangle.
3. Lock the item.
4. Copy the locked item from the Master Page.
5. Paste it somewhere else (on a page in the same document, into another document in T, or another document in Designer, etc.)
6. The pasted item is Locked, and cannot be Unlocked.
7. Late discovery: Even on a page which inherits the item directly from the Master Page, the item cannot be unlocked, even using Edit Detached. It can only be unlocked by editing directly on the Master Page.

Note: In V1 (1.10.6) a Locked item from a Master Page always seems to be pasted as Unlocked. That also seems incorrect, so perhaps there was a V1 bug that has been fixed. But now, the item cannot be Unlocked, which also seems wrong (and worse behavior than V1).

Sample document: locked-master-page-object.afpub

Notes:

1. The rectangle on the Master Page is locked.
2. Page 1 inherits it from Master A. It cannot be unlocked on Page 1, even using Edit Detached.
3. On Page 2, the object has been copied on the Master and Pasted to Page 2. It cannot be unlocked there, either.

[MikeTO]

Same on macOS. Note that the original reverse of copying a locked object from a regular page to a master page still pastes as unlocked.

[Dan C]

Hi Walt, Mike, 

The behaviour is expected within the same document, however I do not believe this should be affecting objects pasted into new documents and have created a bug report for this.

Lee

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, LeeThorpe said:

The behaviour is expected within the same document, however I do not believe this should be affecting objects pasted into new documents and have created a bug report for this.

Thanks, Lee. But I'm curious why I should be able to create a locked layer within the same document that cannot be unlocked. What purpose is served by having a layer that cannot be unlocked?

[smadger]

On 3/27/2023 at 11:37 AM, LeeThorpe said:

Hi Walt, Mike, 

The behaviour is expected within the same document, however I do not believe this should be affecting objects pasted into new documents and have created a bug report for this.

Lee

Just to chime in and add my voice to this as I had the original problem. Regardless of being in the same document or not, I should never be in a situation where I have a layer that cannot be unlocked and edited, and I really don't understand why this behaviour is desired when it state cannot be reversed? This caused me a lot of lost time and frustration. If you're saying that this is intended then I think at the very least there should be a menu option to break layer locking inheritance as a "break glass" scenario.