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Help!

I have a stand alone edit form on my site. It works great except for the fact that if someone other than the original author makes an edit, the entry’s author changes to whomever edited it last.

Is there some way I can make it hold onto the original author?

Thanks!

BTW it was great meeting the team in Austin at SXSW this year! We’re really excited for v.2

Hey, louderthan10!  Are your authors set as authors for the publish page drop-down?  Also, what version and build of EE are you on?

SXSW was a blast, it was great to meet everyone. =)

No they aren’t, should they be?

I’m on v. 1.6.2

Thanks!

Okay I’ve added that group to the Publish page drop-down so I can edit them from the control panel, but I’m still getting the same problem on the SAEF.

Does this changing around happen in the publish page as well? Or only in the SAEF?

Nope just in SAEF. I thik it might be because of the hidden field “author_id” that gets generated with the SAEF tags. IF there was a way I could override that or assign it to the original author I think it might work.

You’re creating a stand alone EDIT form, right? Not the stand alone ENTRY form..

How are you making the form?

Hi Sue,

It is an editing form… I’ve actually built myself a little workaround that works just as well for my needs. I’ve basically just added and other custom weblog field called photographer (it’s a photo contest site) that gets populated with the screen_name value when an entry is first published via SAEF.

So in other words, everything is working?

I am coming in a little late on this discussion, but it is still a relevant issue for me.

I would like to set up a Stand Alone Edit Form so that content from an existing entry can be edited from a web interface so the user does not have to go through the CP.

I have read the information on the Stand Alone Entry Form, which I have been able to successfully implement. Is there documentation on how to do it as an Edit Form?

Any guidance or direction on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Forrest

Forrest, the first place I’d look is at Solspace’s Form Helper Plugin

I’m seeing this same issue (in EE 1.5.2 build 20070604).

I’m setting up an SAEF to allow users to submit entries, and later edit their own entries.  Both of those are working.  However, if the entry_id for the edit form is changed to load an entry authored by another user, when the form is submitted the entry is updated and authorship is changed to the current user (which is not the original author), despite “Can edit entries authored by others” being set to No for the relevant member group.

I can fix this myself, but I expected that setting to prevent this behavior.

😉  Time to upgrade.  But yep- it’s going to automatically assign the author to whoever loads the page.  I’ve worked around it by adding a hidden field for author and using the author of the entry’s member_id.  Should do the trick- yell if you run into issues with it.

> Time to upgrade.

I’d like to, but unfortunately it’s not that simple.

Thanks for your suggestion.  I think what I’m going to do is read the author_id from the database in my weblog_standalone_insert_entry hook method and set $_POST[ ‘author_id’ ] to that so that the user has no opportunity to monkey with it.

> But yep- it’s going to automatically assign the author to whoever loads the page.

Like I said, in my opinion it’s misleading that “Can edit entries authored by others” and “Can change the author name when posting section entries” don’t prevent this.

Following up for Robin here:

I’d like to, but unfortunately it’s not that simple.

Why, what seems to be the problem?

Like I said, in my opinion it’s misleading that “Can edit entries authored by others” and “Can change the author name when posting section entries” don’t prevent this.

Thank you for your suggestion. Perhaps you would like to make it an official feature request?