Category editor

[zarjeez]

Hello,
i'm new in Elxis, i started using Mambo CMS and support team told me that there will be better for my needs to use Elxis.

My need is to have 6 sections each edited from 6 different frontend users (add, edit, publish, unpublish, delete) + one admin that have rights to edit all from backend.

How can i do that in elxis? I think is simple for a dated user but for a newbie is pretty difficult.

Please tell me step by step what to do (creating menus too.. each section have to have its own menu).

Thanks a lot!

zj

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[Ivan Trebješanin]

Just create users you want and assign them privileges you want... that's simple. You'll notice that classes of users like editor publisher, admin... already exist = you can edit their permissions. Play around a little. 

PS
You forgot to mention, speaking of Greece: The BEST CMS around! 

[datahell]

To create a link to a section for adding new items (articles).
Go to administrator -> menu -> usermenu.
Click add new.
Select type "Link-URL"
Enter a link like this:

index.php?option=com_content&task=new&sectionid=XX&Itemid=0

where XX is the id of the section you wish your users to be able to add content items.

Set the access level of this menu item to Author or to whatever user group you want to use it.

Repeat this for every section you want to add.

Users with permissions to write (ie Authors) would be able to use this link and add new items.

Test it to see that everything works fine.

Thank you both for your kind words 

[zarjeez]

Thanks very much for good explanation!

I have made all like you wrote.. but i have a problem..

What i have made until now:
1. Created 6 categories
2. Created menu for each category
3. Created 6 groups of Publishers (each group can pubish only on his category)
4. Created 1 publisher for each group

in my mind i want to have 6 minisites, with own menu.. a publisher when logs in can post, edit and publish only on his category and not in others. A main category contains links to other categories.

Looking that every category have the same pages with different content, the main site have to show last articles published on all categories and each category have to show only his articles.

The main site have a "general" menu, same as on 6 minisites, navigating on this menu, it have to show general content, like presentation, of what is content of this category, then visitors can see the content of each minisite clicking on link "what in minisite 1 about this content", "what on minisite 2 about this content" and so on..

but is not what i have..

when i log in as publisher, i cannot see anything, a message appears and tells me that i have no rights to see the page (main page of the site)

What i made wrong??

Can you help me making all working?

[datahell]

You must make links to sections not categories. XX I wrote you above is the section id. Elxis allows you to give read access on categories based on user groups, not write access. Write access is controled globaly for all your site's content. You might be interesting in the new upcoming EDir component for the job you want but it is commercial (it will be available very soon). In the attached screenshot is a sample of how you can manage write access of your user groups or subscribers using EDir access matrix.

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[zarjeez]

and how much it cost?

and when it will be available?

i think that giving the right to read page in which add new, modify, publish content is enough..

if one only person have the right to see the page that edit the content of his section is enough.. or i have misunderstood..

my problem isn't solved.. why logging in i cannot see nothing? or i can login just in section in which the user is publisher? if i login in other pages i cannot see nothing??

please let me understand better what i can do with a publisher login for one section. (and what i cannot do if i loginfrom another section..)

[datahell]

Check what access you have set to your sections/categories. Set them all to "Public Frontend" if you wish to be viewable by everybody. After this if you have modified Elxis default user access check if the "Publisher" group has rights to add/edit content.

Site -> Access manager -> Publisher -> Edit Permissions
By default Publisher has these rights:

action  add     content     all
action    edit    content    all
action    publish    content    all
action    upload    files    images (Elxis 2007)
action    view    components    all
action    view    profile    all

[vens]

Ευχαριστώ για το TIP, το έψαχνα πολύ καιρό!

δουλεύει και για blog (π.χ. οταν έχουμε ΝΕΑ με συνεχόμενες ημερομηνίες)


Υπέροχη δουλειά παιδία!

Ευχαριστώ Datahell

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Thank you!

[jorgebravoc]

To create a link to a section for adding new items (articles).
Go to administrator -> menu -> usermenu.
Click add new.
Select type "Link-URL"
Enter a link like this:

index.php?option=com_content&task=new&sectionid=XX&Itemid=0

where XX is the id of the section you wish your users to be able to add content items.

Set the access level of this menu item to Author or to whatever user group you want to use it.

Repeat this for every section you want to add.

Users with permissions to write (ie Authors) would be able to use this link and add new items.

Test it to see that everything works fine.

Thank you both for your kind words 

Hello Datahell,

I have tried to do this, and when I click on the link from the user menu, I still get a dropdown list for Section and Category.... I don´t want my user to be able to choose any section, only categories..... I have two section right now, ID 1 and 2... I have tried both numbers on the sectionid=XX  and same result.. still get a dropdown list with both Sections.....

any help please? I want to grant access to certains sections (and categories if possible) to my users.


thanks a lot

I am using the latest version of Elxis by the way.