Another user submitting a blog for someone else (transcriber)

[attroll]

Is there a way we can link another user to allow them to submit blogs for someone else.

What I mean is I would like user (attroll) to be able submit blogs for user (whiteblaze) and have it show up under there name.

This will come in handy for me because the way I am going to have my blogs set up. It is going to actually be a journal site for hikers hiking the Appalachian Trail. The hikers will be mailing there journals home when ever they get to a town for someone else to type the journal on the web site for them. So what I need is to allow someone else to be able to type in blogs to another person blog without logging in as that person if it can be avoided.

So what I need to to allow a transriber access to submit journals into another preset users blog.

[Brian]

I'm not sure if it would work in your situation, but something like a usergroup permission setting where specific groups could post as other members could probably be added. And possibly another setting so that you could specify that certain usergroups could not have messages posted by them. So if you didn't want anybody posting as you, you could turn that option on for Admins and nobody would be able to post as another admin. Of course something like that would allow those usergroups to post as any user who isn't a member of a usergroup that's set to not allow posts to be made by them.

[attroll]

I'm not sure if it would work in your situation, but something like a usergroup permission setting where specific groups could post as other members could probably be added. And possibly another setting so that you could specify that certain usergroups could not have messages posted by them. So if you didn't want anybody posting as you, you could turn that option on for Admins and nobody would be able to post as another admin. Of course something like that would allow those usergroups to post as any user who isn't a member of a usergroup that's set to not allow posts to be made by them.
No I don't like that idea of another usergroup being able to edit journals. Beacuse you would have to create one usergroup for every journal or else everyone in that usergroup would be able to edit every journal online.

If it can not be done I understand. The Journalist will just have to give there username and password to the person transcribing their journal.

[Brian]

I had a feeling that might not work for you, but was about the best thing I could think of that might be similar and not a huge pain to code. Granted it would be possible to create a more advanced system where you could pick specific users that could post as you (or something along those lines), I'm not sure that it would be a feature enough people would use to make it worth the coding time right now. Perhaps in the future if there's any demand for it, but right now I think there are more essential features that should be concentrated on.

[attroll]

Yes this is a feature that others will not need, so I am not going to push this right now. I understand.

[attroll]

Brian

I am bringing this subject to the surface again because I really need this added to the blogs for my purposes. I don’t know how many other users will want something like this, but I really really need it. I will do what ever I have to in order to talk you into doing this. Please let me know let me know what it will take. I can throw some funding your way if that is what is needed.

[Brian]

How exactly are you thinking something like this should work? Something like a new page where users can enter a list of names of other users that can post as them? Or any other ideas of how it could be implemented?

[attroll]

I am not sure how it would be easiest for you. I was thinking that somewhere in the users profile or as you said they could have another page that they can add names of those who can submit entries to their blogs under their name and have full privileges to their blog. I only want the names of the people that they have on their list to have full access to just the biologicals only and not to the forums.

Does this make sense?

[Dawn]

This would work for me. I want to move all old html based editorials to this system and would like to have an option to have them entered under the authors username. I like that I can edit the date btw :)
I'm not sure if it would work in your situation, but something like a usergroup permission setting where specific groups could post as other members could probably be added. And possibly another setting so that you could specify that certain usergroups could not have messages posted by them. So if you didn't want anybody posting as you, you could turn that option on for Admins and nobody would be able to post as another admin. Of course something like that would allow those usergroups to post as any user who isn't a member of a usergroup that's set to not allow posts to be made by them.

[attroll]

This would work for me. I want to move all old html based editorials to this system and would like to have an option to have them entered under the authors username. I like that I can edit the date btw :)
This is exactly one of the reason I need it.

[attroll]

Brian

It has been 10 months now and I have not heard anything more about this. Is there still a possibility that I could get you to do this as a add-on or incorporate it in the the software? I really need something like this.

[Brian]

A new permission setting was added in v1.0.0 to allow groups you specify to be able to submit an entry as another member.

[attroll]

A new permission setting was added in v1.0.0 to allow groups you specify to be able to submit an entry as another member.
I just upgraded to V1.0.0 and I did not see this option you are referring to. I looked at the user group permissions where you said it was. Am I missing something?

If it is by user group then I am assuming that it means anyone in the user group can add an entry under anyone else's name. If that is the case, that is really not what were looking for. That is a disaster waiting to happen. If we have a usergroup with over 100 to 200 people in that group that can add entries as another individual then how are we to know who is adding the entries. One person could go bad and rec havick and be a real pain in the ass. We need to let the blog owner pick who they want to submit a blog under their name.

[Brian]

It's the last setting under 'Entry Adding/Editing Options' and it's called 'Can Submit Entries as Other Members'. That does allow for them to submit entries as any other member though.

[attroll]

It's the last setting under 'Entry Adding/Editing Options' and it's called 'Can Submit Entries as Other Members'. That does allow for them to submit entries as any other member though.
I see it now. There was a line there but there was nothing written in it. I did not do the upgrade correctly. I have it fixed now.

As I was saying this is not a good way to do this. If I have over 200 or more users that need another user to submit there entries then I have to assign each additional user to this specific usergroup that I create. That means that I could also have 200 or more users in this usergroup. If one of these users decides they want to cause trouble then they could start randomly entering entries into other users blogs.

Could you possibly have it so the user can pick who can submit entries to there blogs under their name?

[Brian]

Could you possibly have it so the user can pick who can submit entries to there blogs under their name?

That's not exactly going to be an easy task and I really haven't seen any other requests for something like that, so honestly I don't think I can justify spending the time on it unless it becomes a more popular requested feature.