Validating Links

[mcyates]

How can i make it possible for people to add links and then be put on a waiting list untill I have validated the links before they are added.

[Hart_House]

go to the category edit options and set the category permission to require editor approval.


category was set by default to no approval by editor.

you have to run this into your query box in the alter section

update idx_category set permission = '1'


that should set all categories to require admin


To do this manually, you'll have to go to the category/ edit/view and scroll to the middle and change the cat permission to require editors approval.

I think a patch needs to be written to reset the category default setting. Everytime you add a new category, you'll have to reset it to requires approval.

Hart

[yorweb]

I had this problem recently when I found around 400 out of 410 categories could take submissions without approval.

Quickest way I found was to:
- export the categories into Excel
- do a ctl-down to fill permissions all to 1
- save as tab delimited (which should be way it came in anyhow)

Then on your server:
- empty the categories table using phpMyAdmin
- go back into admin of indexu again and import the categories

Certainly beats f#cking around for 2 days doing it individually.

One thing to watch out for is if your category names have a comma, it puts the name in speech marks which look crap.

[gurame]

Originally posted by yorweb


Certainly beats f#cking around for 2 days doing it individually.

2 days ??? Less than two minutes with phpmyadmin. Click idx_cat table and go to the SQL box and type this:

UPDATE idx_cat SET permission='1' WHERE permission ='0'

Then click go.

Walaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....less than two minutes.

[yorweb]

Good point. Why my brain didn't engage I'm not too sure !!