myContent
    A significant bug, February 28, 2008 |
This is a worthwhile component but it overrides the built in Joomla workflow privileges.
If you run Joomla! with the strict user privileges, i.e., Author, Editor, Publisher, etc., for frontend users, when using this module, the parameters located within the menu item closes the granularity down so that Registered/Author/Editor/Publisher have all the same Access Level as Joomla! contains called 'Registered'.
Note: User level privileges are located in the User Manager when creating a user. Access Level privileges are located in the actual Menu items under 'Access Level'.
What this means for MyContent component is that each one of these Registered Access users can update any already published item other than their own which does not bode well for workflow. Newly created items are still prohibited from being published until the Publisher or Administrator does it.
In addition, only a notification goes to the Administrator when in the Joomla! workflow it should go to the Publisher since that privilege will be actually doing the final publishing and NOT the Administrator.
I am not sure if this is just some conflicting convention in Joomla! as a default with regards to menu items.
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