Article manager

[5cakids]

Ok can I let members submit articles just to one section? If yes then how do they do it?

[rebelrose]

*Edit* Look below for the correct answer 

[IchBin]

No you can't control this. Thats why articles have an approval system. The mods you set to approve articles can control what categories articles go in. Right now in TP, its either approval or not. No permissions on separate cats etc.

[marzi]

Hello,
   As an observation, I have read a number of postings about the subject of controlling members or someone else  being able to post/write to an article or articles.
   Perhaps I am confused and mistaken, but isn't this what the forum itself does: allows for the creations of articles (called topics), controls who can post-start-respond-pick the subject, etc.

[IchBin]

Yes its what the forum does, but its not what TinyPoral "articles" do.

[marzi]

Is there an easy way to describe how they differ and what advantage one may have over the other?

[IchBin]

No easy way really. All I can tell you is that TP uses its own permissions for articles. It doesn't use the SMF permissions. They simply are not built in to TP to be able to do it right now.

[Nokonium]

Is there an easy way to describe how they differ and what advantage one may have over the other?

An article can be what you want it to be, they are much more versatile than forum posts. On one of my sites I use articles as static pages to create a website with a forum.