Fields - change autor - Created by

Hi,

Because created_by is a form to log the information for Joomla, they disallow editing (even for Super Users). If you do wish to use this form and allow for editing, you have to hardcode this, but this is something that we do not recommenend.

It would be better to create a userfield in your component. This is automatically linked to your list of users in Joomla. However, the users will not show on the frontend.

If you need the users to appear on the front end as well, you have to add an SQL field that refers to #__users table.

You will have to do a little bit of coding to the J_USER and J_SQL field for it to automatically retrieve the author of the item.


For Premium Users, we provide guidelines on how to do this through our ticket system.


Best regards,
Jamila

The publish_up and publish_down fields are related to the publishing date. With these fields you can select when you want to start publishing the content and when you want it down again. It is not related to the author.