The new author management in v1.5.6

The author tab is meant

-- 1. to manage authors(users) and list info about them and their items

You could say that
- item's manager TAB already has filter per user
- and statistics TAB has totals items of user

But Authors tab has more INFO AND FILTERS and makes it more easy to manage authors.

-- 2. also provide a way to configure a frontend end "AUTHOR LIKE view", this is implemented via the category view. So the author tabs allows to define "category parameters" for the author

-- 3. You can assign 3 things to present an author's avatar:
-- (a) a FLEXIcontent item (already implemented)
-- (b) the Joomla contancts details (NOT implemented yet)
-- (c) the user profile of the community builder or other similar components (NOT implemented yet)

-- 4. Will add an AUTHOR list in the frontend that (NOT IMPEMENTED YET) that will:
-- (a) open joomla contact details/CN user profile in a modal popup window
-- (b) link to author items


I have 2 enhancement issues for v1.5.7 open here:
code.google.com/p/flexicontent/i ... ail?id=288

code.google.com/p/flexicontent/i ... ail?id=276

Regards

Since this is a new feature, for v1.5.6, if you find any bugs please post here

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