CB Blogs and K2 group problems

Hello

I began to use CB Blogs to offer a better input for writing K2 items.

However I have noticed that CB BLogs does not respect K2 groups.

Meaning that if a user belongs to a K2 group which is not allowed to write in, say, sub-category 1 of category A, when using CB Blogs this user can override K2 and is perfectly allowed to write in all sub categories of category A, including sub-category 1 which is forbidden in the K2 Group

Woa, hope it's clear enough

Is there a way to make CB blogs respect K2 groups and user allowances ?

Thanks

When CB is integrated with K2 the K2 groups don't serve much purpose, but no not without editing the code. It's already designed to respect Joomla ACL (extensions really need to stop making their own ACL!). It's possible at the time of using CB Blogs for the user not to exist in K2 at all and thus not having any groups so integrating K2 group restrictions could cause a lot of display/access problems. I suggest using Joomla ACL only if possible.

I understand but what we need to achieve is to give writing permissions in K2 to some groups and not to others, while leaving the reading permission to all public

Honestly I dont see how to achieve this without using K2 groups for now

Any other idea ?

Then why use CB Blogs at all? It's designed to bypass such restrictions. If you're needing those restrictions it doesn't serve much purpose. Please do not use it as an "Submit Article" tool; that was never my intention in developing it. At any rate if you're wanting K2 group support you'll need to implement into K2s model found below.

components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbblogs/models/k2.php

More specifically you'd add your access checks to "getCategoriesList".

Kyle,

This is not a "submit article" tool, it's a great managing tool for blogs but in order to get the most out of K2, I think that it would be best to also have the ability to :
- limit writing rights in K2 categories (compulsory for a blog tool)
- use extra fields (very useful to CCK)
- use K2 image uploading tool (very useful to limit size and max speed)

Joomla content is too limited to make a blog support and if you add these features you would really have a nice blog tool addition to k2

just my two cents

It's a generic implementation that supports multiple models. The 2 other models don't have even remotely the support for such features so it's not possible without rewriting all the models and duplicating a mass amount of code. Sorry, but I've no plans to do just that. If you need a specialized solution then you should have one developed; this wasn't made for K2 and only K2, it was made for Joomla content; the other models are afterthoughts and added by popular request.

I understand your requests and I'd like to have them too, but maybe for a rewrite in the distant future, but certainly not in current usage.