What joomla and easyarticle ACL settings are needed for site administrator?
By Paul Kleingeld on Wednesday, 10 January 2018
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I have all sorts of trouble creating working ACL settings for easyarticles.
When I create a new usergroup, and use the ACL settings inside the easyarticle component to make this group a content manager i.e. editor i.e admin, this does not work.
First I get an error trying to log in as a user in this content menager group: turns out I also have to set the joomla acl settings: to permit logging in at the front of the site.
After doing this, I can login, and I can review a pending article, but I cannot edit this same article. When I try to do this i get this as errormessage;
"You are not allowed to edit the post as it is currently under review by site administrators. "
Edit: As I looked further into it: this seems to be corect behavior, because you need first to approve or reject the article. After apporving the article you can edit it.

I am trying to creat a "site administrators" group. edit: An administrator can edit, delete, approve or reject an article, and can add own articles. But an administrator also needs to get "new post requires moderation" mails. What setings determine that these emails are send to a user in the " site administrators" group?
I cannot find anywhere in your documentation what standard Joomla ACL settings are needed for this.
Can you please help me to understand which ACL settings are needed for this where.

Thank you.

Regards,
Paul
Hey Paul,

To clear your confusions, the ACL within EasyArticles are mainly only used within EasyArticles and not anywhere else including logins or anything that isn't related to EasyArticles.

As for the notifications, it does not rely on the ACL. Instead, it is located under Settings > Notifications. There are currently 2 ways for notifications (pending moderation e-mails) are being sent:

1. To super admins. By default, anyone that is within the super administrator group will get notified.

or

2. Custom e-mails. You can also configure EasyArticles to send to custom e-mail addresses from the settings, http://take.ms/LlCyj


P/S: What warrants a group a super admin is dependent on your Joomla permissions, http://take.ms/Jg4BX
Mark
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Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:21
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Thanks for your response.
I succeeded in using a superuseraccount as the recipient of the pending moderation email as you desbribed. But as all superusers would have acces to everything in the administartion of the site I would not prefer to do this.
I will use the alternative you indicated via custom emails inside notified.

Is it okay to have several email adresses inside that field? Or is there only on email address permitted to receive these e-mails? I tested two email addresses in the field and that seems to work okay.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Paul
Paul Kleingeld
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Friday, 12 January 2018 22:25
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Hey Paul,

Thanks for getting back to me on this. Yep, you may specify several e-mail addresses by separating them with a comma.
Mark
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Saturday, 13 January 2018 00:20
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