i set up two groups. admin and Pub.
setup categories for each of them.

Now i recognice following:

A public author has to be in the joomla group "Author" to be able to submit content. But that is a risk, because as an author he can modify every content on the site not only k2 related.
second, if he submit a new article he can choose the author, so posting under other author name is no problem.

greets

I wondering if all the posting features would rely exclusively on K2 group... Mixing Joomla groups default behavior with K2 group definitions we can't have registered users submitting new K2 articles.
In my point of view this is very frustrating!!

Anyone knows how to make Joomla Registered User add new K2 content in frontend?

Cheers

Hi. K2 user groups are independent of Joomla! user groups. So you can have registered users submitting new articles. Just assign the user to a K2 user group with the appropriate permissions.

thats right, but in the current state it is a security risk, that someone can post under teh creds of another one.

Lefteris, with a clean install of Joomla (1.5.13) I can't make that work for me.
Basically if I put a Joomla user belonging to Registered in a K2 user group with privileges to add, edit and publish items, and then try to add an article in frontape logged with that user, the K2 add window shows me in the created by combo all the users belonging to Joomla Editor group and above. So the user I'm currently logged do not shows there.
Am I doing something wrong?

By the away, I guess if some K2 group has set the property of allowing user to "edit it's own article" this should be enough to filter the "created by" combo in add/edit K2 articles to just shows it's own user.

Guys, what you think about it?

Cheers

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. K2 user groups are independent of Joomla! user groups. So you can have registered users submitting new articles. Just assign the user to a K2 user group with the appropriate permissions.

Hi again. The issue with the created by list has been fixed for v2 final. The list has been removed from the front-end forms and the system sets as author the current user.

Miguel Alvim said:Lefteris, with a clean install of Joomla (1.5.13) I can't make that work for me. Basically if I put a Joomla user belonging to Registered in a K2 user group with privileges to add, edit and publish items, and then try to add an article in frontape logged with that user, the K2 add window shows me in the created by combo all the users belonging to Joomla Editor group and above. So the user I'm currently logged do not shows there.
Am I doing something wrong?

By the away, I guess if some K2 group has set the property of allowing user to "edit it's own article" this should be enough to filter the "created by" combo in add/edit K2 articles to just shows it's own user.

Guys, what you think about it?

Cheers

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. K2 user groups are independent of Joomla! user groups. So you can have registered users submitting new articles. Just assign the user to a K2 user group with the appropriate permissions.

Thanks for the info Lefteris.
I have installed K2 v2 build date 20090701. Is this the last K2 version released?
With that version I still have the problems... It shows the Author combo... So I guess I'm not running the last version.
Can you please point me in the right direction to solve this?

Many thanks.

Miguel

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi again. The issue with the created by list has been fixed for v2 final. The list has been removed from the front-end forms and the system sets as author the current user. Miguel Alvim said:Lefteris, with a clean install of Joomla (1.5.13) I can't make that work for me. Basically if I put a Joomla user belonging to Registered in a K2 user group with privileges to add, edit and publish items, and then try to add an article in frontape logged with that user, the K2 add window shows me in the created by combo all the users belonging to Joomla Editor group and above. So the user I'm currently logged do not shows there. Am I doing something wrong?
By the away, I guess if some K2 group has set the property of allowing user to "edit it's own article" this should be enough to filter the "created by" combo in add/edit K2 articles to just shows it's own user.

Guys, what you think about it?

Cheers

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. K2 user groups are independent of Joomla! user groups. So you can have registered users submitting new articles. Just assign the user to a K2 user group with the appropriate permissions.

Yes it's the latest version but not the final which contains the fix. Final version is coming very soon.

Miguel Alvim said:Thanks for the info Lefteris. I have installed K2 v2 build date 20090701. Is this the last K2 version released?
With that version I still have the problems... It shows the Author combo... So I guess I'm not running the last version.
Can you please point me in the right direction to solve this?

Many thanks.

Miguel

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi again. The issue with the created by list has been fixed for v2 final. The list has been removed from the front-end forms and the system sets as author the current user. Miguel Alvim said:Lefteris, with a clean install of Joomla (1.5.13) I can't make that work for me. Basically if I put a Joomla user belonging to Registered in a K2 user group with privileges to add, edit and publish items, and then try to add an article in frontape logged with that user, the K2 add window shows me in the created by combo all the users belonging to Joomla Editor group and above. So the user I'm currently logged do not shows there. Am I doing something wrong? By the away, I guess if some K2 group has set the property of allowing user to "edit it's own article" this should be enough to filter the "created by" combo in add/edit K2 articles to just shows it's own user.

Guys, what you think about it?

Cheers

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. K2 user groups are independent of Joomla! user groups. So you can have registered users submitting new articles. Just assign the user to a K2 user group with the appropriate permissions.

Thanks.

Lefteris Kavadas said:Yes it's the latest version but not the final which contains the fix. Final version is coming very soon.

I have created different groups author, editor, publisher and assigned different permissions. But I didn't get see add item button in front end. How to get add article front end?

I wanted to be able control access to k2 items by user, user group or category so users can only have access to their assigned user group! But no matter what I do nothing changes users still can access all the categories and post items to them. How do I hack or correct this?
Thank you.

K2 Permissions apply only for content editing NOT for content viewing.

Biruk H. said:I wanted to be able control access to k2 items by user, user group or category so users can only have access to their assigned user group! But no matter what I do nothing changes users still can access all the categories and post items to them. How do I hack or correct this? Thank you.

Thanks but that's exactly what I want to do! I want to assign people only to edit a specific category. I assigned the user group the category permission but still any manager can edit any content. I created a user group, created users[manager] and I assigned each user to a user group and assigned a category. But the problem still exist! I am think'g a core file problem!!! What do you think?

Thanks

Lefteris Kavadas said:K2 Permissions apply only for content editing NOT for content viewing.
Biruk H. said:I wanted to be able control access to k2 items by user, user group or category so users can only have access to their assigned user group! But no matter what I do nothing changes users still can access all the categories and post items to them. How do I hack or correct this? Thank you.

Permissions affect only the front end editing not the backend.

Biruk H. said:Thanks but that's exactly what I want to do! I want to assign people only to edit a specific category. I assigned the user group the category permission but still any manager can edit any content. I created a user group, created users[manager] and I assigned each user to a user group and assigned a category. But the problem still exist! I am think'g a core file problem!!! What do you think?
Thanks

Lefteris Kavadas said:K2 Permissions apply only for content editing NOT for content viewing. Biruk H. said:I wanted to be able control access to k2 items by user, user group or category so users can only have access to their assigned user group! But no matter what I do nothing changes users still can access all the categories and post items to them. How do I hack or correct this? Thank you.

Wow. This little bit of news avoided me altogether.  The mind hears what it wants to hear, huh?


Lefteris Kavadas said:

K2 Permissions apply only for content editing NOT for content viewing.
Biruk H. said:
I wanted to be able control access to k2 items by user, user group or category so users can only have access to their assigned user group! But no matter what I do nothing changes users still can access all the categories and post items to them. How do I hack or correct this? Thank you.