manager user and Front end posting with Newspublisher?

Check here to make sure you understand how permissions work. It’s complicated:

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Document_Access_Permissions

darn the point of course would be not to deal with that.
So far besides FDM (which I will try tackling soon) it looks like the only recourse is to creat web users with the same username and password and then use a plugin like web2manager to merge them. Of course that might not work either.

Thanks for the link. It has all those steps that ive dreaded...and still shows a separation between the users. Web and Manager--
I kinda get it but I kept hearing about how things would change so a year latre I hope they had.

It just seems too bad that really to have someone post from the frontend(news publisher) and be able to do basic edits (via quickedit)
The only solution still seems to be to have manager login and weblogin side by side with a replicate user/password. argghh.

I mean personally , I refer the manager side, but I can tell you without a flinch most people I make web sites for dont want to deal with it like that. We can probably thank popular applications like facebook and myspace for the "why cant I just update it from the page" request...
LOL----

Again really appreciate the support -thanks, Im kinda re-learning this all again..

what does your NewsPublisher call look like? You should not need to deal with permissions with the manager hack. There are some required fields that are native to NP. I have not used it much so I am not aware of the details.

I used it like this:

well the issue appears to be this...
If I leave the document in the public view...
Even with the Hack..

People can still see the post blog link and then after clicking that the form is available. It may not accept the submission..is that what it does?

--thanks

Im going to go ahead and look at the FDM...appreciate all the pointers..

Ok -So it looks like FDM will work for me, Although I only need its most basic functions (Its quite a robust one), I finally figured out how to get it to work...
-Phew-

Just got to do some cleaning up. This definitely should be the next step toward the evolution of blog type posting and modx (with all due credit to previous tools too). IMO-Its really great to be able to have Manager users go in and post a quick note/doc from the front end while still also being able to use Quickedit on those created docs and more. It provides a simple way for some users to just not deal with all the rest of the ’fun stuff’.
While providing more experienced users an alt. with the flexible backend mgt.

Very impressive, I knew modx would not let me down. Glad to be back.
i look forward to learning more..thanks so much for your assistance.