Thank you for a great component. Instead of having multiple components installed, I can now just use one.
I have gone through the manual section of the site and everything seems straight forward. There is something I would like to do with a front end article submission though.
1. Reduce the form shown so that registered users only see the title, WYSIWYG editor, and publish button.
By default the user see's the Featured, publish start & end dates, Alias, etc. fields and I don't want that. I also don't want to cause a conflict between article creation (back-end) by modifying the article creation template for user front-end submission.
I'm thinking I can duplicate and rename the article form and modify it. Then specify that for the front-end user publishing. Is that correct?
2. I want to restrict all front-end user submitted forms to a specific category.
By default the front end user sees, and is able to select, which category the article publishes in. I want this restricted to a specified category.
I'm not sure how I would do this.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you again for an excellent component.
John
I found the area to hide part 1 of my question. I have the view I was looking for.
I can't figure out part two where I can restrict the category though. I would like all front end submitted articles to go into a specified category. Any suggestions on how to do this?
can't you do that with a conditional state for the category field?
Maybe use the group to select the category... frontend is mostly registered. Bakjend administrator...
Not perfect... but if admin only uses backend...
Hi,
you need to add hidden field category_id with value set to the id of the category you wish to save to.
Thank you Klas that worked.
Everything is working just like I needed it to.
