Can a ACL-experienced one comment as this Issue is open for a Week having Status "New"?

It's a feature request @franz-wohlkoenig

Thanks for Info @brianteeman. Category "Feature Request" is now added in Issue Tracker.

No, it's not a feature request.
I think it's realy a bug.
It is not normal that when an editor saves an article, that there is no more access after.

sorry it's for j3 or for j4 ?

Looks like it is for j3 but looks a bit late for 3.9.
comment above:

With the arrival of the workflow in Joomla4

In fact I have always wished we had 3 buttons in frontend: Save, Save & Close and a Preview button (+ the Cancel one). This would allow Authors (with permissions only set to Create and Edit Own) to check in frontend the display result of their proposed article after Save (as we need an article id) and before a Save & Close which would close the edit form.
This would still let Editors with the Edit permission to control the content proposed after a Save & Close and a Publisher to decide of the article State.

In j4, Preview was added when editing an article in backend grace to a new helper PreviewHelper

It would indeed be a new feature, even if it is only for J4.

needs a j4-Label.

@infograf768 can you please add a j4-Label?

@HLeithner can we test pull request on this ?

There seams to be no pull request yet

I see this as 2 issues...from the front end (I'm sorry I don't know how to fix)

1. to DISPLAY unpublished articles for authors, if they 'own the article', and if they have 'edit own', as a setting. I know there is a module that shows all articles owned by an author, but it doesn't allow you to display unpublished ones. (Instead I'm using a separate tool to display Latest News enhanced, but could be done with core joomla)

2. to be able to EDIT the unpublished article
   Once you find that article, you should be able to EDIT it as the 'owner' of the article, and if you have edit own.

thanks,
Laura

After running into the same issue for several clients (surprisingly on the same week), I really think it is a bug that should be addressed in Joomla 3 (since many sites will not jump into Joomla 4 right away but still need the fix).

Authors with access permissions: edit and edit-own can edit everyone's article, published or not.
Here, the author 'jd' can access his unpublished articles.

Authors with access permission: edit-own (only) can only edit their published articles.
'jd' cannot access his unpublished articles.

There is no way for authors to retrieve an unpublished article from the frontend, which totally breaks the default workflow.

Something to work on for sure. I was experimenting some ideas using a system plugin mainly for Joomla! 3 regarding a similar issue.
Maybe I can help to work on this when I have some time.

This has been first reported as an issue in Joomla over 4 years ago (with multiple issues marked as duplicate and closed), and in 2021 is still not solved :(