Hi everyone, I am try to allow my users to be able access the Media Manager via the Frontend, I have searched both K2 & Joomla Parameters but I can't for the life of me find anything relating to this. I searched Joomla Extensions in case one was needed to get this option, but going by the following quote on another thread, it seems that it is possible, please could someone tell if & how this is possible.

Joey Kuijpers wrote: Unable to upload "header_overlay_full.png".
Permission denied.


Goodday,

I am experiencing the following problem while uploading images from the frontend with K2.
We have some frontend publisher who login and add items via the K2 Frontend Module.
When they try to upload an image from the K2 Editor image tab the get following.
K2 Media Manager is opened but all the toolbar buttons are greyed out.
But when you click the upload file button it does what it should do, open up an windows explorer screen.
I than can choose a file to upload. But when I hit the upload button the following error is raised:

Unable to upload "header_overlay_full.png".
Permission denied.

To test it more out, I logged on as the Super Administrator on the frontend of the website.
I tried the same thing as one of our frontend publisher does. Also under the SA account, the toolbar buttons are greyed out but can be clicked. Also when I try to upload the error as mentioned above is raised. When I try this on the backend under the SA account, it works perfectly fine.

Could some clarify this frontend behaviour, why aren't we able to upload images through the K2 Media Manager on the frontend?

Some additional information:

Joomla v1.5.25
K2 v2.5.4

Frontend Publisher is member of K2 Registred Users which have following rights (database view):
comment=1
frontEdit=1
add=1
editOwn=1
editAll=1
publish=1
inheritance=1
categories=all


Super Administrator is member of K2 Site Owners which have following rights (database view):
comment=1
frontEdit=1
add=1
editOwn=1
editAll=1
publish=1
inheritance=1
categories=all


Thanks in advance!

Sorry to bump this, but I am sure someone on here must know the answer, I can't be the only one who needs frontend Users to be able to add Titles and or Descriptions to their SIG Pro Galleries. Come on Share your knowledge.

Thx in advance Peter.

same problem :dry:

Hi. Media manager usage is restricted in the front-end. You can however use it in the backend to add images to galleries. Please take a look at getk2.org/community/New-to-K2-Ask-here-first/14260-How-to-link-to-an-K2-article-How-to-add-pictures#159545