Restrict author categories in Publisher

ourblok1

Publisher is using the categories in Joomla for the categories that authors can choose from. I was under the impression that I can set up separate categories for authors in publisher itself. No big deal. But there are categoies that I don't want my authors to access. Is there a way that I can disallow certain categories, or declare "safe" categories for them to post to? For some reason when I I start checking boxes in "Ignore Selected Categories When Authors Submit Articles", not all of them can be checked. Or when I select some boxes, others get unchecked. It's confusing.

I also see "Default Type" which is joomla core. What other types are available?

Ninja

ourblok1
Hi
There is no ACL in Joomla for the category restrictions. In this you need to move the article to different category when you approve it.

manhta

ourblok1
Hi,
You can open file administrator\components\com_publisher\views\settings\tmpl\default.php

Change line 4872 to this

<div id="ignor-joomla" style="display:<?php echo $display_joomla; ?>; float:left; position:relative;">

Line 4882 to this

<div id="ignor-k2" style="display:<?php echo $display_k2; ?>; float:left; position:relative;">

Line 4892 to this

<div id="ignor-zoo" style="display:<?php echo $display_zoo; ?>; float:left; position:relative;">

ourblok1

Ninja

I think you all have a bug which lead me to some confusion. It's probably just best to show you what's happening. See here:

[REMOVED PER YOUR REQUEST]

The section for "ignore Selected Categories When Authors Submit Articles" in the "Authors & Articles" section is not allowing me to select certain categories.

Ninja

ourblok1
Hi
This option should work, Can you Edit fields in first post and submit a temp super user login and Author Login for staff. I will check it, i just tested on demo and its working fine.

ourblok1

Testing post posts can be done successfully. Restricting the categories, as demonstrated in my video, is buggy.

Ninja

ourblok1
Hi
Can you submit the site login in Edit fields options and remove the Video as you posted it bug on Public domain however its site specific issue on your site and not replicated on demo site as well.

ourblok1

Done. Please let me know what you find.

Ninja

ourblok1
Hi
I can still see the video on Youtube, For the issue kindly re checked the catregory are not showing in your video too.
http://prntscr.com/uv43v4
No selected category showing on frontend : http://prntscr.com/uv44dy

ourblok1

Please watch the video again. The problem is I want to exclude more categories and your software has a bug that is preventing me from selecting those additional categories. please see the video.

Ninja

ourblok1
Hi
Thanks for the login details, I am checking it with dev to check this selection issue.

ourblok1

manhta
That did the trick! Thank you.

Ninja

ourblok1
Thanks for update, you can use the fix on all your sites and it will be added in next update for Publisher.

Regards