Hi everyone!
After successfully managing the Content and Structure, with front end Views and Forms, I am moving forward with this great web application.
I would like to make some improvements with FlexiContent, and I need some help. I used before the Joomla ACL and the Status/Author changes in the backend, but I don’t know how to achieve this in the front end, and authorise the relevant user group for that.
Web app context:
- The main Content Type is Members, so a group of Members, with other Content type: Details information, Events, etc...
- The Status of the Group of Members can be Active ( = Published), Inactive ( = Unpublished), Archived, or On Waiting List ( = a new status like In Progress)
- The 2 User groups are Managers and Workers: Only the Managers can change the Status of the Group of Members. Managers can see all Groups of Members and their content
Then the typical workflow is:
- a Manager changes the status of a Group of Members to Active, and affect this Group to a Worker user.
- a Worker can only see a Group of Members that are Active AND affected to him/her
- also, all the Content, like Details, Info, Events, etc, inside the Group of Members (a Type and a Category in FlexiContent), should use the ACL from the parent Group of Members = a Member can only be seen by a Worker if the Group of Members is affected to him/her and Active.
I read the Documentation and Tutorials, and used the search as well, about the FlexiContent Workflow feature, and finally, I don’t think I would need this. And I don’t need email notification and content to be validated/published by 2 or more users. So it should be feasible with the joomla ACL an all the Permissions available at different levels in FlexiContent.
I have created the 2 Joomla user groups, for Managers and Workers. I tried using the Status and Author fields, tweaked the ACL, but I cannot make it work in the front end.
Please would have an idea or similar Use Case I could look into, to find a solution?
Kind regards,
Hervé
