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#1 2007-01-31 14:06:05

dingoboy
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Registered: 2006-09-07
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Changing the owner of an article

I need to make a number of articles, posted by my publisher user, editable for a user with freelancer privileges. Thus I’ll need to make the freelancer owner of these articles, I presume.

How do I change ownership of articles?

If there’s no way to do this specific task – is there another way around this problem then? (Via PHPMyAdmin for example?)

I would really appreciate any help on this one, fellas, as it is for work.

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#2 2007-01-31 14:31:18

colak
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Re: Changing the owner of an article

there used to be a plugin which could do what you are asking for but its name escapes me. Articles are saved in the “textpattern” table where the article “owner” is also saved.


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I do my best editing after I click on the submit button.

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#3 2007-01-31 14:37:14

dingoboy
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Re: Changing the owner of an article

Oh, must be http://textpattern.org/plugins/448/ajw_admin_workflow ?

Thanks! I’ll try it out.

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#4 2007-01-31 14:37:21

FireFusion
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Registered: 2005-05-10
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Re: Changing the owner of an article

There is a plug-in…
http://textpattern.org/plugins/448/ajw_admin_workflow

Or you can do it by editing the permissions of freelances…
http://textpattern.org/tips/280/editing-user-priveleges

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#5 2007-01-31 14:59:33

net-carver
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Registered: 2006-03-08
Posts: 1,648

Re: Changing the owner of an article

All

in TxP 4.0.4 you can do it from the content > articles tab…

  1. check off the article(s) of interest in the right-hand column
  2. scroll to the pick list called “with selected :” at the bottom of the page
  3. choose “change author” and pick the person you want to assign them to.
  4. hit the go! button.

Easy as that.

Last edited by net-carver (2007-01-31 14:59:50)


Steve

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#6 2007-01-31 15:08:43

colak
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Re: Changing the owner of an article

Hi steve
duh… I feel like an idiot now
:)


Yiannis
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NeMe | hblack.art | EMAP | A Sea change | Toolkit of Care
I do my best editing after I click on the submit button.

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#7 2007-02-01 08:35:23

Mary
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Registered: 2004-06-27
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Re: Changing the owner of an article

You’ll still want the plugin if you want to re-assign authors from within the individual article edit screen.

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#8 2007-02-01 08:40:12

net-carver
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Registered: 2006-03-08
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Re: Changing the owner of an article

colak

you’re a genius!


Steve

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#9 2007-02-07 15:18:02

dingoboy
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Registered: 2006-09-07
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Re: Changing the owner of an article

I still have a problem with this. (Am I the only one?)

The change owner thing works like a charm in 4.0.4 – no complaints here.
However, when I try to edit the changes article with my freelance user, there is no save button! Weird… I’ve ponced around with this for a while now, and I can’t find any solution.

Freelancer owns freelance article (originally created by Publisher), but is not able to edit it. Why?

Please help.

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#10 2007-02-07 18:15:02

colak
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Re: Changing the owner of an article

Another way is to change the permissions in admin_config.php


Yiannis
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NeMe | hblack.art | EMAP | A Sea change | Toolkit of Care
I do my best editing after I click on the submit button.

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#11 2007-02-07 18:47:18

masa
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From: Asturias, Spain
Registered: 2005-11-25
Posts: 1,091

Re: Changing the owner of an article

Mary wrote:

You’ll still want the plugin if you want to re-assign authors from within the individual article edit screen.

The current version is incompatible with 4.0.3.
Is there a repository to obtain a previous version of a given plugin from?

Cheers Martin

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#12 2007-02-07 22:56:38

dingoboy
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Registered: 2006-09-07
Posts: 48

Re: Changing the owner of an article

Of course I could just change the users’ privileges, but the thing is: I only want them to be able to edit their own articles, more or less. So the freelance status is somehow appropriate.

I can’t figure out, why I cannot save an article with one user, when this user has been made owner of the particular article. Just doesn’t make sense.

Is it a bug in the plugin?

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