Maybe simple question, not sure how to change user/owner/author of a document? Also how to add profile fields, so user can have photo associated with it?
Reason I’m asking is that I want to create a list of articles where each one would have author’s photo and short bio under the text. Some articles written by admin (me) need to have the owner changed.
If there will be a lot of them, it might be worth creating a plugin that would add the createdby field to the Create/Edit Resource panel, but that would not be a trivial job.
I would probably just use PhpMyAdmin and put the ID of the author in the createdby field of each resource.
Depending on the version of MODX, there may also be a DB editing tool that would let you do that in the Manager.
Hi,
Log in as the relevant user and duplicate the resource (right click on resource) then delete the original.
It had me baffled for a while. Would be cool to have a change author dropdown somewhere to make it easier.
Hope this helps
Thank you both, that’s good suggestion. But I’m really surprised that cms like modx doesn’t have that option built-in. Also still need to know how to add a photo and/or additional fields to user profile?
Quote from: howster at May 08, 2011, 02:25 PM
Hi,
Log in as the relevant user and duplicate the resource (right click on resource) then delete the original.
It had me baffled for a while. Would be cool to have a change author dropdown somewhere to make it easier.
Hope this helps
That will change the ID of the resource, so any hard-coded references to that ID (e.g. Wayfinder or getResources include or exclude properties) will be wrong.
You could change the createdby field with NewsPublisher if you know the users’ IDs. You’d just have to put the Edit button in the template, navigate to each page, click on Edit and save it with the new createdby ID. That would preserve the Resource ID and I think it would be faster than duplicating them.
I think this should be an easy thing to do... It should be I. A Resources' Page Settings tab. A "Created By" field.
Does MODX has a feature request section?
Also more fields like "URL" or "Photo URL" would be nice. Custom fields here would be good... Or even generic custom fields like "Custom1", "Custom2", "Custom3"
A good thing though is... the current user fields doesn't type check so for "phone" for example you can put in a URL and call it with [[*createdby:userinfo='phone']] (backticks)
Sweet all 3 links seems golden, thanks romain
Also, custom fields for resources are called Template Variables and they are easy to add.
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