setMemberProperties method throws an error

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Hi,

Our environment is

Plone 4.3.3 (4308)
CMF 2.2.7
Zope 2.13.22
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 2 2016, 08:31:24) [GCC 4.8.4]
PIL 2.3.0 (Pillow)

I am using Plomino with Plone 4.3.3 and I had added a piece of code on a PlominoAgent to change the email address of another user with the system. I have manager permissions on my login but I am still seeing this error

line 42, in agent_append_modify_doc_info
Unauthorized: You are not allowed to access 'setMemberProperties' in this context
Context is

The code I am using is

from Products.CMFCore.utils import getToolByName
membership = getToolByName(context, 'portal_membership')
member = membership.getMemberById(user_id)
Log('Get Member email - ' + str(member.getProperty('email')))
Log('Member object - ' + str(member))
member.setMemberProperties(email=UpdatedEmail)

The User ID exists on the system and both log statements returns the current values. Interesting, I always though the second print statement returned "User object" but strangely I see the UserID being returned.

I am not sure what is causing this problem and the code I have used is from Plone's Member Profile documentation. Kinda ran out of ideas too.

Any further guidance would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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Sorry - think I might end up answering my question in short period of time.

The original code in PloneTool.py is below

@security.protected(ManageUsers)
    def setMemberProperties(self, member, REQUEST=None, **properties):
        pas = getToolByName(self, 'acl_users')
        if safe_hasattr(member, 'getId'):
            member = member.getId()
        user = pas.getUserById(member)
        user.setProperties(**properties)

So I simply substituted this bit of code now to see whether it works

    user = pas.getUserById(member)
    user.setProperties(**properties)

And eureka! that worked. I would still like to understand how to use the setMemberProperties as that's the right way to do it.

Thanks

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Look at the docs instead of guessing API methods and their signatures

https://docs.plone.org/develop/plone/members/member_profile.html#setting-member-profile-properties

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Thanks @zopyx. I wasn't rambling nor second guessing API methods. It was from the same documentation link I found the code to try but it came up with the error shown on my first post.

Hence why I wanted to know whether I am doing something silly here to get this error.