Allowing front-end editing of existing News articles

[jmcgin51]

As best I can tell, there is no way (in a default install) to allow frontend users to EDIT existing News articles that they previously submitted.  They can submit NEW articles, but cannot edit existing ones.  To edit articles, one must be a backend user with the appropriate permissions.  Is this correct?

Assuming this is correct, has anyone developed a method for enabling frontend editing of News articles?

I'm envisioning an extra parameter for the News module, such as
[News action="fe_edit"}

By default, this would bring up a hyperlinked list of all articles (expired and non-expired) written by the logged-in frontend user.  The user would then click one of the articles to get an edit screen (preferably built from a user-definable template), where he could make and save the desired changes.

The new parameter could also be used in conjunction with other existing News parameters (like {News action="fe_edit" articleid="113"}.

Any thoughts on this?  I'll post in the commercial forum if no one has already been down this road.

[calguy1000]

As best I can tell, there is no way (in a default install) to allow frontend users to EDIT existing News articles that they previously submitted.  They can submit NEW articles, but cannot edit existing ones.  To edit articles, one must be a backend user with the appropriate permissions.  Is this correct?

Your correct.

This would have to be a 'project'...  not sure if I'd do it in the News module, or as a seperate module though... probably in the News module I guess.

[valgibson]

Has there been any progression on possibilities for editing news articles in front-end modus?

[guth]

I'm also interrested by the answer...

[jissey]

Me too!