New authors can not be added to the author field [high priority]

joshua_davis commented

2019-10-09 15:56:11 +00:00

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I published an article by a woman who hasn't appeared on the site before and discovered that the "Authors" text box only accepts currently existing authors. When I typed Laura's name in box and tried to save it I got this error message. This is something that we really need fixed ASAP. Thanks.

I published an article by a woman who hasn't appeared on the site before and discovered that the "Authors" text box only accepts currently existing authors. When I typed Laura's name in box and tried to save it I got this error message. ![cant-add-new-author](/uploads/41a48ae0d6b080e08f22514e147330fa/cant-add-new-author.png) This is something that we really need fixed ASAP. Thanks.

mlncn commented

2019-10-09 17:19:32 +00:00

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@joshua_davis the workaround for the moment is to https://geo.coop/node/add/people first and create the person (can be done in another window, and after a couple submission tries should start coming up in autocomplete; if not we can show how to put in the ID to save the article).

@joshua_davis the workaround for the moment is to https://geo.coop/node/add/people *first* and create the person (can be done in another window, and after a couple submission tries should start coming up in autocomplete; if not we can show how to put in the ID to save the article).

mlncn commented

2019-10-09 17:21:47 +00:00

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@joshua_davis but knowing to go to Administer » Content » Add person first, before creating other content, should be enough to hold you over until we get around to making inline author creation?

cc @FreeScholar

@joshua_davis but knowing to go to [Administer » Content » Add person](https://geo.coop/node/add/people) *first*, before creating other content, should be enough to hold you over until we get around to making inline author creation? cc @FreeScholar

mlncn commented

2019-10-09 17:22:27 +00:00

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marked this issue as related to #38

mlncn commented

2019-10-09 17:23:03 +00:00

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Related to author improvements, https://gitlab.com/agaric/sites/geo/issues/38#note_227708407

joshua_davis commented

2019-10-09 17:32:35 +00:00

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Silly me, I was looking for something like this under the People
menu...That does work. Thanks.

Silly me, I was looking for something like this under the People menu...That does work. Thanks.

mlncn commented

2019-10-09 18:05:07 +00:00

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It's our fault/Drupal's for making the "People" content and "People" users so confusing! If you have recommended label changes to make it easier for others, we can do that easily.

joshua_davis commented

2019-10-09 18:22:52 +00:00

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Maybe change the top-level menu item from People to Users ?

joshua_davis commented

2019-10-09 18:23:25 +00:00

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Or maybe Members would be better than Users...

joshua_davis commented

2019-10-17 20:45:26 +00:00

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