empty dashboard for custom role

Question

I setup a custom post type employee with an agent role that mimics an author role for this particular post type, and so far everything is working fine, except that when I created a test user and granted it an agent role, the dashboard that test sees is empty as in:

I was hoping it would be something like what an author user would see, like:

Could anyone please help me on this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This support forum thread has both an explanation and a code snippet that you might be able to work up into a solution.

The "Right Now" widget is tied to the edit_posts capability. I don't know about the incoming links widget or quick post widget, but I'd guess it's the same issue of either requiring edit_posts or another similar post-specific capability.