A nice feature would be the ability for backend and especially non-backend users such as editors.. to be able to post article to K2 from the frontend. Similar to the current joomla "submit article" links in the user menus

you can do this, you just need to create a group with the relevant permissions within K2 and add those specified users to it, then publish the login module which also contains the create article button.

also check within your K2 parameters menu that front-end editing is enabled.

I also have the same issue as Akin. I followed your steps Jack, but I still can't edit the items on the front end...

It does work so long as you.

1) Create a group with editing rights to the K2 category that holds the article to edit; and publish it
2) Add yourself to that group
3) Ensure Frontend editing is turned on in parameters (default is on)
4) Login in front end using same Id as used in backend to create the post you want to edit.
5) Navigate to the K2 article
6) Look for 'Edit Item' Text under title, rather than more familiar edit icon.

ok... I don't think it is necessary to create a topic for what I will ask, so, here it goes: Is there anyway to open the front end post panel using the joomla menu? Is there a link to that panel?

From my tests it seems that the link for Article submission on the front end is

/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&task=add&tmpl=component

Adding this to a normal Joomla menu seems to work for me.

Thanks mtif

After hours of trying to get this working I actually got it to work, thanks for your step by step guide.

The problem for me was re-assigning a user to a new user group, I couldn't get the K2 menus and front-end editing capabilities to work while keeping a user assigned to the default "Registered" user group.

Although this seems a bit counter productive having to assign users to a specific user group rather than keeping the default joomla registered group, Or am I missing something when I create a user through the front end which would allow it to be automatically added to a K2 user group?

Glad my contrib. helped Eddy

I hit the same issue and have added feature requests for K2. But at present it seems that K2 has a partial new access control system. For front end editing use you need to apply K2 users to a K2 group that has rights to edit a certain K2 category.

The weaknesses I see are that ...
A user can only be in 1 K2Group (a shame, sooo much more powerful if a user could be more than one Group)
And its not possible yet to set a sync. between Joomla User Groups and any K2 groups. Without this you will have to add and delete users manually for K2. It would be better if (for example) if you could create a K2 Publisher Group and K2 Editor Group and set these to automatically sync with Joomla Publishers and Editors. You would not want this on all K2 groups but it would be very useful and would probably the default setting for most sites.

Hi mtif, how did you do the url to link to "My Articles", because I can't get the userid. Any idea?

mtif said:From my tests it seems that the link for Article submission on the front end is
/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&task=add&tmpl=component

Adding this to a normal Joomla menu seems to work for me.