TXP Admin: Article list Question?

NXArmada · 2005-11-30 18:49:22

Is there a way to make the article list only display the articles written by a certain author and not the other articles.

Our intranet site has alot of pages (Articles). And I would like to make it were when one author logs in and goes to the the Article List page and only see his/her articles.

jakob · 2005-11-30 20:31:32

this would interest me very much too. Ideally it should be linked to author rights, so that moderators can also view and edit other people’s articles, but contributing authors cannot.

squaredeye · 2005-11-30 23:50:54

That would be a hack of some of the /include folder I think.

Although, I don’t know what or how. Hmm this is a helpful post.
I have often thought that it would be a nice part of the structure of authors ie: admin/editor/staffwriter/etc. (I can’t remember the exact nomenclature?)

Perhaps this is a feature request or a plugin request then :)

Matthew

thebombsite · 2005-12-01 02:22:37

You can already filter by author in the drop-down box at the top of the article listing. I wouldn’t have thought that was too difficult to do. If they can login then it suggests they can spell their name. :grin:

Seriously though, if you hold your client’s hand too much they will never learn anything, and this doesn’t really involve learning does it?

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squaredeye · 2005-12-01 02:25:41

Stuart,
:grin

Yeah, that’s a good point. However, usability is a key feature for a lot of folks. Sometimes its in the details.
The other issue would be that at this point any user with access to the images and/or articles can delete them.

This reveals that TXP is generally best for a group of “safe” users, or author’s that trust one another (to be nice, and to be competant)

So, in some ways I stick to the idea, that it could be incorporated into the author permissions, while in other ways I agree, and think sometimes we can get a little eutopian about what we are looking for in a CMS with a GUI.

Ta,

Matthew

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NXArmada · 2005-12-01 03:39:36

Stuart: I know about the filter but people at the company i work for are not that smart all they know how to do is post and article and upload a file. I have the pages auto generate the list of files to display on there department pages.

Yea Matt gets the idea, On our intranet all the Departments in the company has access to TXP to post information per there department and I want them to be able to see and edit only there post. Each department uploads files to the Files Admin and Images Admin, and they can be deleted by anyone,
we dont want this. All the authors are staff wrtiers so they can only edit their own, but I want them to only see their own Post,Files, and images.

I am willing to hack it to work cause I am not worried about upgrades its internal only. A plugin would be great. Or it comes as a feature would even better.

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squaredeye · 2005-12-01 04:15:13

Ryan,

While I think this is a great idea / possible addition, I don’t see it coming into play anytime soon. There are a limited number of developers and/or coders around here, and they all seem to be focused on priorities right now. I think something might could happen if enough support was drummed up, and/or if a plugin developer also felt the need for this on his/her sight?

It goes right in line with another thread I contributed to here

But notice, NO ONE, has replied to this, which makes me think that folks are either getting annoyed with me :) or their isn’t enough interest for a plugin like this (or features like we are discussing) or that plugin developers aren’t interested in the work it takes for minor changes for “usability”.

So?

Matthew

Mary · 2005-12-01 04:43:47

Proper permissions are already in place, just not refined. All articles can be viewed by any user. Only Publishers, Managing Editors and Copy Editors can edit all articles. Others can only edit their own.

squaredeye · 2005-12-01 05:00:42

Mary,
fairplay, I sleep more :0) I would remember that.

Although, as a freelancer, I just deleted a Publisher article? How does that fit?

It doesn’t change the fact though, that sorting in the image tab isn’t available at all. As you know, with artiswork there are a lot of images, and something like a sorting order, or an image list defined by the author signed in would be helpful.

I suppose questions arise about how it would work if 2 authors were online at the same time? I dunno?

Just thoughts.

Gotta get those clients smart!

Matthew

Mary · 2005-12-01 05:11:45

Although, as a freelancer…

That shouldn’t have been possible. If that’s so, its a bug report. In addition, Textpattern doesn’t see deleting as editing, and should only allow Publishers and Managing Editors to completely delete an article.

Sorting images has been talked about many times before. A plugin shouldn’t do it, it’d be insane (you’d have to entirely replace the whole image handling tab). A patch has already been sent in.

Your final question, I’m not sure of what you’re asking.

squaredeye · 2005-12-01 05:18:00

Mary,
I don’t suppose it was possible because of the extensions added to artiswork? txp_article or txp_author?

Otherwise, how would you suggest reporting a bug like this?

3rd question? Didn’t know I had a third question :) I think I was just wondering if two authors on at the same time would cause a problem when trying to view articles/images.

Thx,

m

thebombsite · 2005-12-01 08:12:50

Well on your 3rd point Matthew, I’ve been modifying people’s sites when they have also been modifying and I remember that when we happen to be modifying the same file, and they have saved first and then I save, I got a warning message that the file had been modified and would I like to view the modified file, or something like that. It hasn’t happened to me for a while. This would be for templates and CSS rather than an article but I suspect the same thing would happen there as well.

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