In reviewing the Plug-ins that come with RC2 I noted one called Joomla Content Author. I am assuming this is associated with the "Articles" tab. That being the case, how does a registered user create an article? I did set things up to add a content item from the User Menu. But it will not work as articles are usually submitted by authors..... Am I making sense? Bottom line is that I want my constituents to be able to write articles, have them approved by admin, and then get them posted.

nant wrote:

joomlales wrote:

In reviewing the Plug-ins that come with RC2 I noted one called Joomla Content Author. I am assuming this is associated with the "Articles" tab. That being the case, how does a registered user create an article? I did set things up to add a content item from the User Menu. But it will not work as articles are usually submitted by authors..... Am I making sense? Bottom line is that I want my constituents to be able to write articles, have them approved by admin, and then get them posted.

I think that you have to make them authors in order to be able to submit articles.

Hey Nick - I understand this now ---- It just seems a bit odd that everyone defaults to "Registered" and then they are given the option to submit content - but they need to have "author" status. This confused me at the start. And if I create a menu item called "Submit Article", they will get blocked (unless I do what you suggest) --- Dunno, I think there is a better way to do this (not sure what that is). Regardless, you guys have done a superlative job with CB and have created a huge fan in me!

regards - Les

I had some questions about the Joomla Content Author as well. It seems that by publishing the Plugin and the Tab it creates a tab in the Profile Page of the user. It will then display any articles that have been published by that user.

I think if you want to have users submit articles for your site then you need an additional component that does that. I use SimpleNews. I haven't had any users submit articles yet however, I have used it and it works pretty good.

Don

hfhs wrote:

I had some questions about the Joomla Content Author as well. It seems that by publishing the Plugin and the Tab it creates a tab in the Profile Page of the user. It will then display any articles that have been published by that user.

I think if you want to have users submit articles for your site then you need an additional component that does that. I use SimpleNews. I haven't had any users submit articles yet however, I have used it and it works pretty good.

Don

Hey Don - Thanks for your input... I had a look at Simple News..... Not a Joomla Component... I dug further into CZ submit - and have installed it. Works like a gem! So I will be using it .
Les