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Actually, this is not just related to the Approved functionality. I have two forms that are NOT using this, and my users cannot go in and edit either form. They are seeing a list of their entries, but when they click the link to go to the Single Entry page, it is completely blank. Again, neither of these forms is using the Approved functionality.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Gravity Forms Directory] GF Directory plugin makes form editing disappearActually, this is not just related to the Approved functionality. I have two forms that are NOT using this, and my users cannot go in and edit either form. They are seeing a list of their entries, but when they click the link to go to the Single Entry page, it is completely blank. Again, neither of these forms is using the Approved functionality.
Nope, you’re not overlooking anything. The Edit Entry link only allows you to edit the Gravity Forms data. Once your form creates the post, everything tied to that post is now in the WP tables. That’s why I’m allowing my users to access the admin area in WP. The plugins I am now using only allow them to see their own posts and their profile page. They don’t have access to anything else. Also, I have it set up so that any changes they make get submitted for review. They can’t actually publish their changes. Publishing is only allowed for admins. We use other data from the form that gets used for a custom search, and we need the Edit Entry link to be able to update that data separately from the post data.
@PamelaLooper – I am using Gravity Forms to create posts with some of the data we collect, we are storing some of the other information separately. I need my users to be able to go into WordPress later and have the ability to edit their posts. The “Edit Entry” link that we are having problems with is part of the Gravity Forms Directory that is being used to allow them to edit the data that does not get displayed in the post. (Editing that data in Garvity Forms does not update the post data.)
I wanted to make sure that my users could go into WordPress and edit their own posts, but not be able to see anyone else’s or edit those. Sorry for the confusion!
@nancyeb01 – Thank you so much for your suggestion. I actually ended up going with Adminimize to restrict what the users can see in the admin area, but I still needed to give them a way to see and edit their own posts without seeing or editing other people’s posts. I picked up two additional plugins that allowed me to accomplish everything I needed. One was called Manage Your Own Posts, which was not on the WordPress site, and the other was User Role Editor, which allowed me to make sure that my Authors could edit their changes but not publish them. This allows me to validate the content before it goes live.
I am still not seeing the “Edit Entry” link, and I was hoping to go live with my site this weekend. If it has to wait it can. One major favor I would like to ask is to have the “Edit Entry” link moved to the top of the page, rather than the very bottom. Some of our entries are VERY long, and ALL of the users who did the early testing (when my links were working) complained about how difficult it was to locate the link.
I am having this problem as well. I originally set up my users as Authors, but I had a problem with them creating and publishing new content when all I wanted to allow them to do was edit their entries from the form. I changed their roles to Contributors, and now they no longer see the “Edit Entry” link. I then went and changed their roles back to Author, but the link is still not coming back up. Is there any way to allow them to edit their form entries using the Subscriber role? I really don’t want them to be able to do anything else on the site, but I’ll conced the Contributor role if I have to.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: What's the core logic of Multisite ?Actually, you should be able to go to your server settings and control which index file takes priority in getting loaded, and this will solve your problem. For example, I have a setup where WordPress is installed at the root level, and then has three blogs in sub-folders.
site.com is where WordPress is installed
site.com/blog1/
site.com/blog2/
site.com/blog3/My hosting company provides a control panel where I can select which index file gets loaded first, so even though WordPress installs a file called “index.php”, my server recognizes that “index.asp” has the higher priority. As a result, when someone goes to my site, they see the original site without any references to WordPress. I provide links to each separate blog for the users, and I have my own bookmark to the login page for WordPress so that I can get into the SuperAdmin section.
This is a MUCH simpler example of “thinking outside the box”, and it doesn’t involve trying to recreate the wheel or forcing the product to do something it clearly wasn’t intended to do.