By Joye Allen on Thursday, 05 January 2017
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Hello,

I am using EasyBlog to allow teachers at a preschool to create blog posts about what happened during a particular school day so that parents can read the blog and be informed. I am using EasyBlog category subscriptions that I set up on the backend in the database and the core Joomla user and groups settings to ensure that parents only have access to the main school blog and the blog for their child's classroom. There are 4 blogs, one for each of the 3 classes and one for the entire school.

I would like for each teacher to be restricted to posting to only their blog and I am using the privacy settings on the permissions tab in each category to do this. However, when I go into the privacy settings for the default category which is the blog category for the entire school I am not allowed to assign permissions by Joomla group. I get the error "Unable to save this category because it is default category and not public." Is there a way to set the default category by blogger? Without this feature, I have to rely on the teachers remembering to switch the category before posting which they don't always remember to do and the blogs end up going to the wrong subscibers.

Another issue I am having is with the redirect after login. I have a Joomla redirect set for anyone who goes to the website and logs in to be redirected to the main school blog. However, when a subscriber receives an email notification with a truncated blog post and clicks the "read full post" link in the email they are required to login as expected but they are then taken to the main school blog instead of the new blog post they clicked the link to read. Is there a way to control the redirect so that the reader is taken to the blog post the "read full post" link is associated with after logging in. At the moment the only way that they get redirected to the correct post is if they are logged in before clicking the "read full post" link.

Thanks,
Joye
Hi Joye,
Is there a way to set the default category by blogger?
Perhaps you can try:
1. Create a menu item (Dashboard)Compose Layout and select a category to go with this menu item.
2. Select the user group access for this menu item.
3. Create several of these menu items for different categories and different user group access(repeat step 1 & 2 for each menu item).
4. When the bloggers want to create a new blog post they should click on this menu item.
5. The composer that loads will select the category associated with the menu item by default so your bloggers do not have to reselect the categories.

Another issue I am having is with the redirect after login.
May I know when your users click on the link in the email are they redirected to Joomla's login page as well? Perhaps you can provide us your site access at http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site so we can investigate this redirection issue? Thanks.
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Thursday, 05 January 2017 12:10
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I will need to play around with the category solution you proposed and get back to you on whether it works.

As for the redirect, yes they being taken to the joomla login screen and from there they are always directed to the main blog. My site login details are included in the secure form. Please let me know if you need me to send them again.
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Friday, 06 January 2017 02:55
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Understood Joye.
I still do not see your site details in this post. Perhaps you can try editing your first post and include it in the Site Details section?
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Friday, 06 January 2017 07:53
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updated thanks
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Saturday, 07 January 2017 00:11
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Hello Joye,

Unfortunately when Joomla redirects the user to the login screen, it doesn't actually store where the user should be redirected to upon successful login.
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Saturday, 07 January 2017 01:27
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Thanks Mark. Is there an extension out there that would help with this redirect issue?
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Saturday, 07 January 2017 03:30
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Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

I've tried to login from your site but it seems like you provided that login credentials is not working, can you check again?

By the way, can you update your FTP access so I will see if I can find out another way work around this?
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Saturday, 07 January 2017 15:47
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