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Development => Support => Topic started by: 5cakids on April 27, 2007, 04:48:46 PM

Title: Article manager
Post by: 5cakids on April 27, 2007, 04:48:46 PM
Ok can I let members submit articles just to one section? If yes then how do they do it?
Title: Re: Article manager
Post by: rebelrose on April 27, 2007, 07:37:28 PM
*Edit* Look below for the correct answer  :uglystupid2:
Title: Re: Article manager
Post by: IchBin on April 27, 2007, 10:29:59 PM
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.
Title: Re: Article manager
Post by: marzi on April 27, 2007, 10:36:32 PM
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.
Title: Re: Article manager
Post by: IchBin on April 27, 2007, 10:40:30 PM
Yes its what the forum does, but its not what TinyPoral "articles" do.
Title: Re: Article manager
Post by: marzi on April 28, 2007, 11:02:49 AM
Is there an easy way to describe how they differ and what advantage one may have over the other?
Title: Re: Article manager
Post by: IchBin on April 29, 2007, 12:56:28 AM
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.
Title: Re: Article manager
Post by: Nokonium on April 29, 2007, 09:09:25 AM
Quote from: marzi on April 28, 2007, 11:02:49 AM
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.