I am trying to get user profiles displayed as articles in a category blog. Is there a way to push some fields of the profiles as articles (and get these articles updated when the user updates the profile)?
Thank you for your help !
It looks like you might be looking to display extended user profiles, not articles. I've used "Community Builder" extension for this. It might be an overkill for what you are trying to do, so look for extensions that extend user profiles, you won't be able to do it with Joomla "out of the box".
Do they need to be articles (com_contact instances)? If not, you could try an alternative with the additional benefit of using core extensions, the "Contact Creator Plugin" and "User profile" as It will do the work you are looking for:
Activate "User - Contact Creator" plugin - Every new user will have a contact profile created.
Configure its parameters - You can select which fields will appear in the user profile page.
Then you can add Add a menu item to display all your contacts (users) - Select the menu type: "Contact / List Contacts in a Category"
You can add custom fields to users following this tutorial: Creating a profile plugin
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I have three users on my Joomla website
an author who can create content
the editor who can edit content but can not publish
a publisher who can create, edit and publish
the problem is in Joomla is editor also have publish authority but my requirement is I dont want publish authority for author user.
how can i implement that?
Where is the confusion in this? If you check this link https://docs.joomla.org/User_Group_Access_levels_explained_in_simple_terms. This is another latest link for 2.5 https://docs.joomla.org/ACL_Tutorial_for_Joomla_1.6. Roles are defined as follows
Author - Can create and edit their content. If you dont want to give edit permission to author you can very well disable it in the content permissions. You will see an Options tab on top right when you open contents. After clicking you can go to Permissions and give required permissions.
Editor - Editor can edit but cannot publish. Editor users cannot, publish or change the publishing status of any articles, even their own.
Publisher - This group allows a user to post, edit and publish any (not just their own) content item from the Front-end.
I added in my phpBB 3.1.3 forum a custom profile field which has to be filled in if someone registers on my forum. I want that this field can be seen only by administrators. Therefore, I checked the following options:
I also require that newly registered users have to be activated by an administrator. Whether a user gets activated depends on the text that he puts into his profile field. However, the profile field does not appear in the inactive users list in the ACP, nor does it show up if I click on the user. How can I find the custom profile field for inactive users?
In the top right drop down box that is currently showing Overview change this to Profile and hit Go. This will show custom profile fields at the bottom of the page.
I currently have a Joomla site that has 5 different departments of people accessing the backend content. Basically, everyone's looking and poking at other departments contents. So how would I set a different account for everyone and allow them to only modify their own content? E.G.
The salt department can post whatever articles they want, but they cannot modify the sugar department's article.
Does Joomla have this kind of ability or any extensions out there?
That is pretty simple on Joomla 3 system.
Firstly, you create 5 different User Groups in Joomla under Users menu.
Go to Content > Article Manager > click Options button on the top right side > Permissions Tab
In the Permissions Tab, click on each User Group and you have tons of permission to tweak such as: Create, Edit, Edit Own, ...
Hope it helps.
If you haven't configured it yet, the key term to look for is ACL (Access Control List).
Basically you need to create 5 users groups (which are not Super Users).
Here is an article to get you started:
Joomla ACL: Configuring back-end ACL
I have set up user group called "Article Editor" with a parent of Administrator. Within that group I have a user of "Agent" and assigned them to the "Article Editor" User group.
I have a blog page in which when they are logged in they can create an article (only with a particular category called blog) and they can edit all articles, however, I cannot get any option anywhere to enable them to delete any article they have created within the "blog" category. I have gone into the article manage and made sure the permissions are set to enable Edit, Delete and Create.
Any ideas how I allow the user to log into the front end and have the option to delete? Ive tried everything I can think of an am going around in circles now.
The Delete permission should be given only to trusted administrators (with intended access to the back-end) and can be performed in the back-end.
From your description, you don't want this group of users to have access in the back-end and even more have delete permissions, as these users if they log-in to the backend they will be able to delete many things.
These users should be able to edit state (publish/unpublish) their own articles.
So, concluding:
Give this group only front-end access, with permissions similar to the author (core joomla group) with the addition of edit state.
So they will be able to create and publish/unpublish (**addition- or trashing) their articles.
I have a bunch of manager user groups that each have article create/edit/delete permissions for a specific category. But when they login to the backend, all articles from all categories display (altho they are greyed out and not selectable). Is there a way to set a default author or category filter for an individual user or group so they only see articles in the category they're allowed to work in? Or any other way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance
I think Joomla 1.7 has that feature, also you better add a user manager component, that will do the work for you.
Try these plugins these may help you : http://geminorum.ir/joomla/gauthor