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HELP!!!

January 13, 2003 By Will Richardson

Ok…Manila problem that for some reason I can’t figger out…any help would be appreciated. In the Web logs that I set up for this other teacher, his students want to go in and edit their original news posts, but they are not getting the “Edit” button option. Shouldn’t contributing editors be able to do so? The description says: “Contributing editors can write and edit stories and pictures and take part in the discussion group.” Or doesn’t that include news items? Only MEs can edit news items???

Filed Under: General, Weblog Tech

Comments

  1. pat d says

    January 13, 2003 at 5:14 pm

    The setting is in EO > Prefs > News Items. Looks like this:

  2. Will R. says

    January 13, 2003 at 5:20 pm

    Nope…that doesn’t do it. The kids are in as contributing editors. Do I have to elevate them to content editors???

  3. pat d says

    January 13, 2003 at 5:59 pm

    Probably easiest to promote them all to Content Es or MEs. Might have something to do with the chronology of who released what news item when. Might also be that the Editorial Access control panel isn’t working on your installation.

  4. Sam D says

    January 13, 2003 at 6:20 pm

    can they edit the news items from the discussion group pages? (see the edit this page button?) I wonder if the ownership of a news item changes when the managing editor approves them? Just thinking through my fingers. If this is the case it should be possible to alter this behaviour without altering userland code.

    Sam D

  5. Anne Davis says

    January 13, 2003 at 6:56 pm

    Before I try to answer this question again, I have to tell you that some days these weblogs are a love/hate relationship. I thought I posted a response and evidently I hit the submit button rather than post response. Here goes!

    Yes, contributing editors can take part in all that you said. I have had this same problem off and on with my kids. One way I have solved it is to have the student type the following in the URL. (This is Derrick’s weblog and Derrick is the name of his weblog so adapt to your site.)

    http://anvil.gsu.edu/Derrick/newsItems/edit/edit$26

    I can’t remember for sure but I think I just ended at the edit part and did not include msg. #. When things went crazy like this I would have the student next to the one having problems do what we wanted to do. I would look at that student’s URL and adapt to the site that was acting up. Is this making sense?

    However, have to tell you. Works some day, not others. Totally random. Don’t you just love it? 🙂

    Anne

  6. Sarah Lohnes says

    January 14, 2003 at 10:16 am

    Will,

    A similar thing happened to me as I was setting up and testing a group news blog – except in my case, content editors were left out, so I ended up making everyone contributing editors. Odd. Anyway, I’d second Pat’s advice: try making them content editors, or just bite the bullet and promote them to MEs.

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