Hello!

I'm testing K2 to replace the Joomla content system. Evreything seems to work fine except for one thing. On the site i'm building, i'm using extensive granular detail of joomlas's ACL system because there are a lot of user groups and lots of different access levels. That means certain users (teachers) can only publish/edit articles in certain categories (classrooms they belong).

In joomla's article system, when creating an article and selecting a Category for that article, a teacher that belongs to 1st grade and Teachers group/ACL has the following options to choose:

Category:
--- 1A
- Teachers

...because she belongs to those groups and can only publish things to those groups.

Now in K2, when creating an Item, the Category options for that item has the following options:

Category:
-Blog
--Students
---Primary
----Morning Shift

---

Grade 1

---

1A
-Teachers

In this scenario, K2 shows the whole category tree for 1st grade! This could be a problem because teachers can unintentionally select the wrong category.

Is there a possibility to modify this? Instead of showing the whole category tree just show 1A, like in joomla??

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks,
E.

Hello Ezequiel,

I would suggest enabling front end editing for your user input.
There is a detailed tutorial in the documentation section.
Finally you have to use your K2 User Groups and assign permissions to specific categories accordingly.

Eg. Assign all the 1st grade teacher to the K2 User Group (not Joomla! user group) which has permissions to these specific categories.

Hello Krikor,

Thanks for your reply!

Yes, I understand what you suggest. But there is a lot more handwork to do because I would have to create a group for each grade with its specific category and assign teachers to these groups. Maybe I have to rethink the whole categories/permissions scheme. I guess Joomla does this in a different way.

Thanks for your help!

E.