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Hi,

I’m building a community with members that can post their own articles, news, blogposts etc. with safecracker.

It works great with:

author_only=“yes”

I would also give some members “moderator” status and let them edit ALL posts using safecracker. I know it works if they login to the CP but it would be more awesome if they didn’t need too.

Is there a solution?

Hi Osze,

Why not just let them login via the frontend?
They will need to login either way. Create a new member group for them in your control panel and then assign the members to it.

Does that help?

Hmm, the nice function with safecracker edit is that a visitor can click on a specific page and edit just that page.

The CP is a bit confusing and I think my visitor will get scared when they have to edit in the CP.

But I guess there is not other solution.

Hi, Oszo.

What you can do is create an Edit this link for individual members, and that way they can get directly to the back end to edit.

See: http://eehowto.com/howto/articles/howto-add-an-edit-this-link-in-ee2

You might be able make the author_only param a conditional

{exp:safecracker .....   {if logged_in_group_id != 1} author_only="yes" {/if}  }

Thanks for the suggestion Sue. I might use it but it’s not ideal that the moderators must use CP.

Rob - Unfortunately that doesn’t work. It would have been great if it did! :( Thanks for the try.

It’s not a functionality Safecracker might build in the future? It would be so awesome if it worked!

Have you tried to do the conditional before the safecracker call? Untested on my end, but that’s what I’d try next.