I was wondering if something possible as a workflow plugin was available.
When i mean workflow, i mean, a front-end management user would edit an article, and this would trigger an approval request, and the edit wouldn't go live until the approval was accepted. Something such as a backoffice would be available on maybe only an email or something that an administrator would need to accept before the change go live.
I have seen countless plugins for Prearticle management where before publishing it there is a workflow. But this is not what i am looking, i am looking for the same process but for when the article is already published, when a change is done to that article.
Is there such a thing for Joomla 3.x available i have searched alot and came to nothing, so i am asking help from the community.
Thanks in advance !
Things like this can help?
http://extensions.joomla.org/profile/extension/extension-specific/extensions-specific-non-sorted/workflow-for-simple-content-versioning
Features of the tool in the above link include:
Revise, edit and approve article changes before going live with those changes.
Send article changes for approval via email
Edit and save changes to published articles without affecting the live site
Save notes regarding article versions
Optionally stage all content changes automatically
Automatically stage content from specific user groups
Optional administrator email notifications of staged content that is ready for review
Complete revision history with access to all staged and prior versions of article content
Optionally disable on the front-end
The following is yet another tool, but too powerful a tool for your requirement, still you may want to have a look at it.
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/clients-a-communities/communities/community-builder
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I want to get all of my users to see announcements. As you already know, we can't force everyone to use a dashboard that would have the announcements located in it as outlined here: https://www.powerobjects.com/blog/2011/11/22/adding-announcements-to-the-dashboard-in-crm-2011/. I could add this component to the most frequently-used dashboards, but I'm not going to get complete compliance. Too many people use user-defined dashboards and views. Further, not all of our users use email or other correspondence consistently, so my channels of communication for updates to the system are limited. My best bet was to create a popup upon login containing announcements, akin to the "pending email" warning, which would appear upon login regardless of any other conditions:
I've dug around to try and see where that warning comes from, in hopes of reverse engineering it to build a new component... but I just couldn't figure it out. I've seen options on how to disable or circumvent it, which naturally is the opposite of what I'm trying to do.
Is something like this possible?
Unfortunately this is a missing most wanted piece/feature even today in latest 365 versions.
We are using Web resources in global dashboards to socialize such thing, as announcements are deprecated. We cannot circumvent personal dashboards as default scenario.
We are planning to explore Learning path for this requirement, but that’s not applicable for your version.
When registering a new Joomla user, an email is sent to the new users email address containing the username and password. Does anyone know how to disable this functionality, so that new users does not recieve this email?
Note
Important to note that there are two scenarios to consider, each with different answers.
Scenario 1) An unregistered user registers a new user account for me#foo.com by using the frontend, where me#foo.com represents the user's own email address.
Scenario 2) An admin registers a new user account for her#foo.com using the backend, where her#foo.com represents someone else's email address (i.e. the email address of the account you are trying to create).
Based on comments from the OP, this question is targeting situation 2 - i.e. in this situation we do NOT want Joomla! sending emails to her#foo.com after creating an account for her in the backend.
Solution to Scenario 2
Login to the admin backend and then go to Extensions -> Plugin Manager.
From the Plugin Manager, locate the the plugin called User - Joomla! (Plugin type is user and Element aka Plugin file is joomla). Click on the title of the plugin to go into the configuration for this plugin.
Set Notification Mail to User to No.
Click Save.
References
plugins/user/joomla/joomla.xml
administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_user_joomla.ini
Rant
Finding this setting feels like discovering an easter egg. After you do find it you will see the seemingly straightforward description of the configuration setting, which, after rolling your mouse over the text at a moderate but not-too-fast velocity, triggers a popup balloon to begin a mocking fade in sequence, which, after finished, explains to you in a condescending tone exactly what the setting does. But before you've found this, you've most likely already visited the global configuration and played around with the email disable function there (but why would you want to globally disable emailing??), and you've probably also visited the User Module configuration, which also has a suspiciously named email configuration setting which however NOT apply to this situation (e.g. see http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla-25/users/prevent-new-user-email-notification). You might have also searched around on the Internet and found some forum posts which suggest to disable this by hacking the Joomla! core (e.g. http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=280282). Seriously, with the recent discovery of the location of this configuration parameter I have to wonder what kind of altered state of mind the Joomla! folks had to have been in in order to come up with some of the weird ways in which things are organized in this strangely convoluted piece of software.
Check this,
In Joomla 3.x and Joomla 2.5 there is option for avoid sending username/password to the new registered users.
You can check this,
Login to admin -> Users Menu - > Options from tool bar -> Send Password (Yes/No).
Customizing core file do not recommended.
Hope its helps..
I Need a help in Joomla, Currently have a website in Joomla 2.5 that's have a 25 Article & will make a new article as per my client input.
I want to update existing article but not want to publish without client approval those changes means, if my existing article id is: article&id=101 It's remains after text updated but not want to view this updated text for public user, I am already know about User Groups (Author, Editor, Publisher) but they not able to full fill my requirement like Author can post content but not publish it's good to me but when Author edit this article second time it's automatically publish, here i need help because i want here to administrator approval to this modified text.
Please Help if this can Possible with any Component/Module/Plugin or any trick.
Thanks
I don't believe this is possible in core functionality without unpublishing the article first, which I assume you don't want to do. You could duplicate the article (save as copy), revise as an unpublished draft and then swap articles after sign off, but it's not a particularly slick workflow.
We need for articles to pass by an editor before getting published. Some pages need to pass by two different people. This is beyond the contributor/author/editor roles in the Joomla core, I think, because edits to existing pages need to be held for approval, during which time the original page needs to remain live.
Is this possible in Joomla 3.x?
An extension like this may help you
and other options are also ther use 3rd party software like processmaker and integrate it in JOOMLA in iframe and LDAP to verify users.
open source version of processmaker is available and free to use
I'm looking to build an integrated login and user management system between Joomla and eGroupware, ideally with Joomla as the driver. That is, users would log in to Joomla and have their credentials passed into eGroupware as well, so that they could follow a link over to eGW and not have to log in again. Also administrators could add new users to Joomla (or update existing user info) and have those changes reflected in eGW as well.
I tried out this component but all I could get it to do was to synchronize passwords between existing users of both systems (matching on their usernames). Documentation is in Portuguese so I might have missed something in translation. Also I've checked out JFusion but it as yet has nothing available for a bridge to eGW.
Any general advice on how to proceed is greatly appreciated. I have some Joomla experience but not much at writing extensions/modules; would it be easier for me to try to adapt JFusion or something like that or to write something myself?
The best approach would be to write two Joomla plugins: one of the authentication type that will create the session in eGW when someone logs into Joomla, then one of the user type that will respond to the onAfterStoreUser event and update the profile in eGW. This way, you won't be hacking either Joomla or eGW. There's a tutorial on creating authentication plugins for Joomla here: http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:Creating_an_Authentication_Plugin_for_Joomla_1.5 Creating a user plugin will be a similar process, only you'll be responding to the onAfterStoreUser event.