Authors only manage own posts
By Sebastian on Monday, 24 April 2017
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Hi Support team,

I wonder if it is possible to give authors only the right to manage their own blog posts in the backend. If the authors (Joomla User) logs in and creates a new blog then there is no way to change the author - That works perfect.

However they will see the main dash board (they have ACL rights) and all blogs are shown. They can click on a blog and change the text of other authors, which is not ideal.

What is the way to only give the auhtos the possibility to manage their own blogs?
Hello Sebastian,

Ideally, if your authors shouldn't have administrator access, you shouldn't give them the access to /administrator/ . They could manage their own posts from the front end

Then, you can configure the ACL section in EasyBlog to only allow them to perform tasks that you want them to.
Mark
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Monday, 24 April 2017 15:55
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Dear Mark,

Thank you for your quick reply. My authors need to access the backend anyway and I would like to give them access to the backend to manage only their posts. As far as I can see I cant configure the ACL options in a way that authors are only able to manage their own posts.

Please help.

Regards,
Sebastian
Sebastian
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Monday, 24 April 2017 16:31
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Hello Sebastian,

The only way is for you to disable the moderate entry acl for their user group, http://take.ms/qm6aP . This way, they cannot change the ownership of the blog post.

However, the listing at the back end doesn't really respect the current author. It assumes that the user is an admin. This is why I would suggest you to request your authors to manage their posts on the front end
Mark
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Monday, 24 April 2017 16:40
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