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We are trying to launch the calendar feature but have some issues before we can I will list them separately. If someone goes to http://www.indiebusinessnetwork.com/calendar/community/add and creates and event as long as an admin only approves it all is well, but if they notice a typo or need to do more extensive edits, upon saving the admin becomes the “author” of the event. Because the original author isn’t available in the list of authors in the back of the site, there’s no way to revert the author back to the original submitter.
The biggest issue with this is now that the admin is the “author” of thew event once they have saved changes the event no longer shows up in their list to edit here http://www.indiebusinessnetwork.com/calendar/community/list that link becomes essentially useless if admins have changed any info and authorship is hijacked. How do I fix this.Hi Donna, nice to see you again and welcome back! Thanks for breaking your questions up into separate threads, by the way–we appreciate it.
When someone is submitting an event via the Community Events form, are they anonymous guests or registered members?
The reason I ask is because if someone posts anonymously, then there is no way of tracing a submission back to them in the first place. And, since, the admin of the site sets the event to Published or edits the event, then that event will be placed in the admin’s “My Events” list of events since that account handled the publication. That’s expected behavior since no one was actually traced as the author originally.
However, if someone is submitting an event as a registered member, that event is published and edited by an admin, and then the event appears in the admin’s “My Events” list instead of the original registered member’s list, then that’s an issue. I did, however, try that scenario and the authorship remained in tact.
Please go ahead and confirm that for me before we start with any sort of troubleshooting. 🙂
Cheers!
GeoffSo they are registered, but not as admins. They are registered members via Wishlist, so they do have a user profile with read access to restricted pages, but not editing or back end capabilities – does that make sense?
Hi there, Donna! Thanks for following up!
Yes, that makes sense–thanks for clarifying. It sounds like that even though they do have profiles via the Wishlist plugin, that data is not accessible or extended to other functionalities, like Community Events. that means that they are still not recognized as authors capable of writing and editing posts in WordPress, but rather as anonymous guests instead.
Unfortunately, the only way Community Events can trace a submitted event back to a specific person is if they have those permissions. Otherwise, they will continue to be seen as anonymous posters, not just to Community Events, but to WordPress as well. I wonder if using another plugin to manage your user roles would help bridge that gap. Here’s a quick search of plugins that might do the trick. Also, here is a list of all editing capabilities offered in the calendar plugin to give you an idea of what permissions are available.
I hope this helps clarify things a bit!
Geoff
We actually had to use a Role Manager for SimplePress and I saw back there after writing this that might be the issue. I gave them some additional permissions, do you see anything else in this list I should give them or do you think this should do the trick? https://www.dropbox.com/s/qdqly3hnza2g3q9/Screenshot%202015-01-12%2013.55.07.png?dl=0
Ah, there we go! I think that puts on the right track–great job!
Wow, that’s quite a list! I would think adding Edit Published Tribe options would be good since someone may want to edit their event submissions. I think Publish Tribe Events is another big one. Honestly, though, you may need to toggle some of these these and try to get the right combination of settings together to get the exact configuration.
Let me know if you have any other follow questions. 🙂
Geoff
Well we have the settings so an admin must approve them so wouldn’t giving them publishing rights mess that up?
It’s certainly worth testing to make sure that’s the case. The goal is to grant any permissions that enable visitors to submit an Events post. Try it with the setting off and then on to see if there any difference.
Cheers!
GeoffHello Donna, just checking in here to see if you were able to find a good combo of settings permissions to get what you needed. Please let me know. 🙂
Cheers!
Geoff
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