It would be really cool if a article had the possibility of having multiple authors. I've searched all through the forums. Perhaps either a button "Add Another Author", or a simple comma to separate the usernames on the Article Owner list. This would make it so another user (author) could edit the article as well. This would then change the need to make all my users a editor which increases the security of people's content if this feature was added.

you can set up different groups of editors to edit in different categories, but you cant have multiple users creating one article. as far as i know thats standard for any cms acl.

I have this problem.

Someone posted an article via K2 and the category page lists the author as me or whatever my username is. If I am not logged in it lists the author as "Guests." However when I click the article title the actual article page lists the correct author.

Still waiting for help with this problem before the true author think I'm trying to steal their thunder.

We've run into this problem many times with academic sites and large news agencies.
We got around the single author requirement with a custom extrafield we designed that pulls from the K2 authors and allows you to select multiple authors to display as the authors for the article.

Hope that helps!

Jon Neubauer wrote: We've run into this problem many times with academic sites and large news agencies.
We got around the single author requirement with a custom extrafield we designed that pulls from the K2 authors and allows you to select multiple authors to display as the authors for the article.

Hope that helps!

Hi Jon,

I'm interested in this feature and was wondering if you have any code you'd be willing to share?

Thanks,
railer

Hi Jon,

If you get this, please return to the K2 thread and post how you got an extra field to link to the K2 database and pull authors names and also link to their profiles?

Thank you,
railer

Jonathan Neubauer wrote: We've run into this problem many times with academic sites and large news agencies.
We got around the single author requirement with a custom extrafield we designed that pulls from the K2 authors and allows you to select multiple authors to display as the authors for the article.

Hope that helps!

I would like to do this exact thing as long as the additional author name is linked to all their k2-items.

Does anyone know how to do this?

You can add extrafields in which you can enter the name and the slug of the author.

Would that be dynamic code for the slug? An item author is not going to be able to write author specific code.

You can use urlencode() based on the author's name to manually create the tag but this still prone to user error.

Ok. Can you give an example of how I would use urlencode() ?

Here you go.
php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

You can use it directly on the alias of the extrafield.

I saw this www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/43118-clickable-author-link-in-article-view#147959

Is this another option?

I had completely forgotten about this one.
This is a bit different. You need multiple fields, but the method is the same.
You need to echo the value of each field like mentioned in that post separately (like the code mentioned there).

Another trick would be to create predefined lists of authors (select boxes) in order to avoid user error.

As for the attachments can you send me FTP and Joomla! so I can look into it?