On my site editors can post items through the frontend of the site. They can addd a new item and edit their own, but can't publish. An admin has to go to the backend of the site to review the article and publish it. For an editor it is frustrating they can't preview their full article after submitting, when it's not published yet. They only see the intro text on their page.
I can't find a setting where I can grant a user view-access to all their own articles. Am I missing something? Or do I need to hack the source of com_k2 > views > item > view.html.php (which is generally not a good idea.)

Hello Steven,

You have to wait for v3 which brings the entire administrator area to the frontend.

Ok, thank you.
I hardly dare to ask: any news on the V3 release?

Steven Trooster wrote: Ok, thank you.
I hardly dare to ask: any news on the V3 release?

I had a similar problem so i created a module to solve (not completely) this problem for my authors. Basically this module brings a number of K2 articles and shows in a table the title, category, published date, author, access level, if it is published, unpublished or pending and an edit button.

Still you are not able to see unpublished or pending articles but you can edit them through K2's classic modal window. You can give it a try and see if that works for you. There are one or two parameters in this module so check them out before publishing it.

PS: I upload it to wetransfer so it will only be kept there for 7 days.

we.tl/KBiZvv7RUE

Thank you Ioannis, but this won't solve my problem. Point is, the author would like to see a preview of the text. We notice that an author edits his posts a lot of times after the article is published.

@Ioannis Unfortunately I cannot share a date for K2 version 3.

Hi Ioannis,
I'd like to install the module you created. Would it be possible to upload it again?

Thanks,
Sindre

@Ioannis why not post it in Github, or the KED - getk2.org/extend/extensions - so people can find it and download it?

Krikor wrote: @Ioannis why not post it in Github, or the KED - getk2.org/extend/extensions - so people can find it and download it?

@Krikor i didn't upload it to K2 extension directory because of a bug. I have done something wrong with the Joomla or K2 Router. I created this module for a project of mine and then i tried to make it work everywhere. I wanted to solve it first but i didn't had the time these past few months. I upload it to github if you want to take a look.

github.com/johntout/mod_authorlatestarticles

Sindre Westre wrote: Hi Ioannis,
I'd like to install the module you created. Would it be possible to upload it again?

Thanks,
Sindre

No problem mate. As i mentioned above i uploaded to github. You can grab it from there. There is a bug though, so in order to make use of it read the instructions.

I don't know if that is what you are looking for. My problem was that K2 is not offering a way to see (and edit) unpublished items in frontend. So i created this module in order for my authors (that i do not want to have backend access) to see all articles. Still there is no way to see unpublished items but you can edit them from K2's classic modal window. Also you can see which articles are special or pending and articles's access levels.

You can always try copying K2 Content's (module) helper.

I've come up with a hack to let users view their own articles, before the article is published. (This was an overwhelming request from the authors on my site) This is important, because the author wants to see the final result of the article, before it goes online.

What I've done is changed the following in Components/com_K2/views/item/view.html.php:
In lines 113 and further (// Published check) change the subsequent lines from
to
So the whole piece of code looks like:
The code could use some more refinement, so an authorized user, like an admin or an editor can preview all unpublished articles.

(I've done some testing on V3, but bringing the admin to the frontend is not the same as a live preview of the article)

It looks nice but if you add the Super User's group in the check it will be better :)

I would suggest a setting for users groups that would allow a the users in that group to view unpublished items. Not just super users. In my case editors check articles before they are published.
This would require more coding. In the list view unpublished articles aren't visible, so an editor will not be able to see these articles in the frontend. Only an author can see his own (unpublished) articles.

A Super user imho should be able to see all items (if he/she is dealing with the content) this is why I suggested that that groups should see these items as well.

Too bad the recent K2 update still doesn't have an option for authors to preview their own (draft) articles…

In the default template the check is there,
github.com/getk2/k2/blob/master/components/com_k2/templates/default/user.php#L95

Make sure that you are not stripping these items from your overrides.

I see. It's quite difficult when functionality is in a template. Makes it hard to update your own template, since you have no clue what's been updated in the core and what in de default template.

Everything has to be displayed in the frontend. This is a feature that has to be represented in the frontend as well.
This has been a part of the core for many years.