Submit article from frontend (with flexicontent)

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14 years 8 months ago #4413 by vincentp

Submit article from frontend (with flexicontent) was created by vincentp

Hi,

I set up Flexicontent- and access. I made a submit article link in my menu with the default Flexicontent Submit Article menu item.

Now when I log in the front end as Editor or even Publisher, the Submit Article menu does not list any category in the category select box.

It only lists categories when I log in the frontend as Super Administrator.

I need to have Editors to be able to submit an article to any flexycontent category.

In FlexiAccess I have a Group called Editors which I granted permissions to submit articles in all categories. The Joomla users that have Joomla Editor Rights are added to the FlexiAccess Editor group too.

Why is the Article Sumit form not showing categories?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you

Vincent

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14 years 8 months ago #4422 by vistamedia

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Hi and thanks for your support :-)

To achieve that, you simply need to go the frontend permissions
Clic on "Articles" and give "Submit" permissions to your group. "Articles" means all categories of the website.

Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch

You can see on the following screen that categories automatically herit from the submit permissions

Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch

Cheers,
Emmanuel

FLEXIcontent lead developer.
www.vistamedia.fr web agency and custom development.
www.joomla.fr co-administrator.
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14 years 8 months ago #4428 by vincentp

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Hi Emmanuel,

Thank you for your quick reply! Actually I think I did all that, the permissions for editors are like this:

but logged in with an account that has FlexiAccess Editor rights on the front end, I get this submission form:

As you see none of the categories (which are properly displayed in Flexicontent category manager) appear in the category select box. So what did I do wrong?

I do love the clearness of your componenst btw, good job!

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14 years 8 months ago #4435 by vistamedia

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You're right it's a bug

I'll post a fix later in the day.
Thanks for your feedback.

FLEXIcontent lead developer.
www.vistamedia.fr web agency and custom development.
www.joomla.fr co-administrator.
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14 years 8 months ago #4438 by vincentp

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Excellent! There's so many extention developpers who could learn from your support pace

Is there a way to use flexicontent for extended user profile pages? I have seen that option in jSeblod CCK, but that component has a vertical :mrgreen: learning curve. I would love to see it in your component

Thanks

Vincent

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14 years 8 months ago #4474 by vistamedia

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Hi again and sorry to be late,
Here is the fix.
Edit

Code:

plugins/system/flexiaccess/flexiacessclass.php

Find the function checkUserCats() (should be around line 1316) and replace the entire function by this one.

Code:

function checkUserCats($aro_value)
	{
		global $globalcats;
		$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
		$newcats = array();

		$query	= 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #__flexiaccess_acl'
				. ' WHERE acosection = ' . $db->Quote('com_content')
				. ' AND ( aco = ' . $db->Quote('add') . ' OR aco = ' . $db->Quote('edit') . ' OR aco = ' . $db->Quote('editown') . ' )'
				. ' AND arosection = ' . $db->Quote('users')
				. ' AND aro IN ( ' . $aro_value . ' )'
				. ' AND axosection = ' . $db->Quote('content')
				. ' AND axo = ' . $db->Quote('all')
				;
		$db->setQuery($query);
		if ($db->loadResult()) {
			foreach ($globalcats as $k => $v) {
				$newcats[] = $k;
			}

			$usercats = array_unique($newcats);
			return $usercats;		
		}

		$query	= 'SELECT axo FROM #__flexiaccess_acl'
				. ' WHERE acosection = ' . $db->Quote('com_content')
				. ' AND ( aco = ' . $db->Quote('submit') . ' OR aco = ' . $db->Quote('edit') . ' OR aco = ' . $db->Quote('editown') . ' )'
				. ' AND arosection = ' . $db->Quote('users')
				. ' AND aro IN ( ' . $aro_value . ' )'
				. ' AND axosection = ' . $db->Quote('category')
				;
		$db->setQuery($query);
		$usercats = $db->loadResultArray();
		
		$usercats = $usercats ? $usercats : array();
		// we add all descendent to the array
		foreach ($usercats as $usercat) {
			$newcats[] = $usercat;
			if ($globalcats[$usercat]->children) {
				foreach ($globalcats[$usercat]->descendantsarray as $k => $v) {
					$newcats[] = $v;
				}
			}
		}
		$usercats = array_unique($newcats);
		return $usercats;
	}

It should work then properly.
Concerning user profiles it's on my plans but we need a frontend editing system for that

After that, a simple connection plugin, will allow you to do that easily

Cheers,
Emmanuel.

FLEXIcontent lead developer.
www.vistamedia.fr web agency and custom development.
www.joomla.fr co-administrator.
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