A nice feature would be the ability for backend and especially non-backend users such as editors.. to be able to post article to K2 from the frontend. Similar to the current joomla "submit article" links in the user menus

you can do this, you just need to create a group with the relevant permissions within K2 and add those specified users to it, then publish the login module which also contains the create article button.

also check within your K2 parameters menu that front-end editing is enabled.

I also have the same issue as Akin. I followed your steps Jack, but I still can't edit the items on the front end...

It does work so long as you.

1) Create a group with editing rights to the K2 category that holds the article to edit; and publish it
2) Add yourself to that group
3) Ensure Frontend editing is turned on in parameters (default is on)
4) Login in front end using same Id as used in backend to create the post you want to edit.
5) Navigate to the K2 article
6) Look for 'Edit Item' Text under title, rather than more familiar edit icon.

ok... I don't think it is necessary to create a topic for what I will ask, so, here it goes: Is there anyway to open the front end post panel using the joomla menu? Is there a link to that panel?

From my tests it seems that the link for Article submission on the front end is

/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&task=add&tmpl=component

Adding this to a normal Joomla menu seems to work for me.

Thanks mtif

After hours of trying to get this working I actually got it to work, thanks for your step by step guide.

The problem for me was re-assigning a user to a new user group, I couldn't get the K2 menus and front-end editing capabilities to work while keeping a user assigned to the default "Registered" user group.

Although this seems a bit counter productive having to assign users to a specific user group rather than keeping the default joomla registered group, Or am I missing something when I create a user through the front end which would allow it to be automatically added to a K2 user group?

Glad my contrib. helped Eddy

I hit the same issue and have added feature requests for K2. But at present it seems that K2 has a partial new access control system. For front end editing use you need to apply K2 users to a K2 group that has rights to edit a certain K2 category.

The weaknesses I see are that ...
A user can only be in 1 K2Group (a shame, sooo much more powerful if a user could be more than one Group)
And its not possible yet to set a sync. between Joomla User Groups and any K2 groups. Without this you will have to add and delete users manually for K2. It would be better if (for example) if you could create a K2 Publisher Group and K2 Editor Group and set these to automatically sync with Joomla Publishers and Editors. You would not want this on all K2 groups but it would be very useful and would probably the default setting for most sites.

Hi mtif, how did you do the url to link to "My Articles", because I can't get the userid. Any idea?

mtif said:From my tests it seems that the link for Article submission on the front end is
/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&task=add&tmpl=component

Adding this to a normal Joomla menu seems to work for me.

Hi Joaquin

The link you want is a standard K2 User Page (Blog).
Its easy to set up in the standard Joomla menu setup. The URL is

../index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=[whatever user ID you want]

I'm at a loss here. I've been doing I think everything that has been mentioned and nothing has worked. I just keep getting this error when I click on Add New Item on the frontend. I'm sure it is an oversight on my end. I've gone over everything set up user groups, user settings, k2 front end on. Still nothing.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Hi mtif,

I don't have the button to edit or add a new article in the frontend. I am able to add or edit in the backend but not in the frontend. I have followed your instructions and also setup your links to

../index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=[whatever user ID you want] and
/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&task=add&tmpl=component

I have created one article in the backend. This one is shown using the links above but I can't edit them in the frontend. I have gone trough your six steps again but could not find any differences.

I have uninstalled K2 and installed the newest version checking weather I had to delete some tables left in the database but could not find any.

I switched to english in the frontend to check if I don't see the text "Edit item" because of now translation or what ever reason. I tested the links above with a different template in case my template would hide the link but there was still nothing to see.

Any idea what I could check else or how I could find the buttons to edit or add an article?

Thanks for any help.
Dirk

I've the same problem. On the same hosting i've other 2 k2 installed in the same way and they work. I don't understand what's happened.

Hostile said:I'm at a loss here. I've been doing I think everything that has been mentioned and nothing has worked. I just keep getting this error when I click on Add New Item on the frontend. I'm sure it is an oversight on my end. I've gone over everything set up user groups, user settings, k2 front end on. Still nothing.
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

OK.

Found out that frontend editing is only possible if Joomfish is not installed.


So Feature request should be frontend editing when Joomfish is installed.

Does sombebody know if this be part of the next release?

So does this mean that we have to install Joomfish for this to work?

you can just remove 'k2-items' contentelement from joomfish

Dirk said:OK.
Found out that frontend editing is only possible if Joomfish is not installed.


So Feature request should be frontend editing when Joomfish is installed.

Does sombebody know if this be part of the next release?

Hi,

Sorry for the mistakes of English, I'm Brazilian. The solution of mtif worked for me, but I had a problem only with the translation of K2. In the back end the Portuguese translation is perfect, but the front end some items are in English. Does anyone know how can I fix this?

You loginto the backed of Joomla, you group the all the users you want to assign posting privilege. Then under "User Group tab", select the particular group and go to parameters on top right corner of the page. There you can change the settings which you are asking for.

Alexey said:Hi. But what if I want more than one user to post what should I do?

Well in case anyones still confused after reading the above tweaks, you can chk this post i've written on this . Its pretty simple to understand also >> srikanta.co.cc/blog/?p=421

Ralden dS said:Hi,
Sorry for the mistakes of English, I'm Brazilian. The solution of mtif worked for me, but I had a problem only with the translation of K2. In the back end the Portuguese translation is perfect, but the front end some items are in English. Does anyone know how can I fix this?