Joomla 3.1 Front end editing - Deleting and article

Question

I have set up user group called "Article Editor" with a parent of Administrator. Within that group I have a user of "Agent" and assigned them to the "Article Editor" User group.

I have a blog page in which when they are logged in they can create an article (only with a particular category called blog) and they can edit all articles, however, I cannot get any option anywhere to enable them to delete any article they have created within the "blog" category. I have gone into the article manage and made sure the permissions are set to enable Edit, Delete and Create.

Any ideas how I allow the user to log into the front end and have the option to delete? Ive tried everything I can think of an am going around in circles now.

Answer 1

The Delete permission should be given only to trusted administrators (with intended access to the back-end) and can be performed in the back-end. From your description, you don't want this group of users to have access in the back-end and even more have delete permissions, as these users if they log-in to the backend they will be able to delete many things. These users should be able to edit state (publish/unpublish) their own articles. So, concluding: Give this group only front-end access, with permissions similar to the author (core joomla group) with the addition of edit state. So they will be able to create and publish/unpublish (**addition- or trashing) their articles.