Hello

We use K2 combined with CB to allow CB users to post in specific categories

CB users are affected to K2 groups by a CB autoaction and they correctly belong to specific groups

Then we have Three K2 groups with different post categories authorizations for each group within a single may blog category

However it seems that using K2ModelCategories does not allow to respect the K2 user authorizations

Did you change something in the API ?

CB team use :

$categories = new K2ModelCategories();
$cache = $categories->categoriesTree( null, true, true );

to display categories and get authorizations from k2 for a specific users

Is that still correct ?
do you have other triggers better suited ?

Thanks for the help
Jean

Thanks, will report back to Kyle from CB team and see what they can correct

Thanks Fotis

Here is Kyle question ?

"Their API is unclear. K2ModelCategories->categoriesTree is the only category output that provides HTML ready for select options, but it does not check access. K2ModelItemlist->getCategoriesTree checks access, but is not HTML ready for select options. I don't know what API they're expecting me to use here and if I need to be processing the results into HTML ready select options or not myself."

Mind to tell me what to do ?
Thanks

I am coming back on this subject.
CB team implemented group support but this is standard joomla user group support
The question is : how can we retrieve proper K2 GROUPS user support to display the correct categories in the front end ?
What is the API to be used for this ?

Apart of :
$items = new K2ModelItemlist();
$allowed = $items->getCategoriesTree();

What is needed exactly to display the categories that the user can access not with joomla access groups permissions but with K2 user groups permissions ??

Kyle would be ready to code something but has no clue neither

Joomla / CB users can add and edit K2 articles through CB Blogs K2 model.
Selecting categories with CB Blogs is fine and respect joomla users groups.
However it does not respect K2 users groups.
What we want is a way to force categories to respect K2 users groups authorization in the front end for add/edit/delete their own K2 articles.

Do you have an API to filter categories according to K2 users groups permissions in the front end ? and if not how can we implement this as K2 does ??

thanks