[title sub="Written by Chris Graham (ocProducts)"]Composr Tutorial: Authors[/title]

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[title="2"]Setting up an Author[/title]

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Manage author(s) from Content Management > Authors.

There is a permission to allow members to setup author profiles that bind to their own member profile. If the 'setup author' page was not entered from a link to setup/edit a referenced author, it will default to defining/editing the author of the username of the current user: it is through this that a member sets up their own author profile.

To set up a profile for another author, it is first necessary to add some author supporting content, and then to choose to set up the author from the Admin Zone author management page.

[title="2"]View a Author[/title]

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Links are placed on author-supporting content view pages to view details of the content author, as well as in the Conversr member profile of a member with a bound author profile.

The 'view an author' screen will display the author profile, as well as downloads that they are set as the author of.
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[title="2"]Merging Authors[/title]

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The Admin Zone provides a module for merging authors. This feature is provided as it is likely that different users will refer to authors with slightly different names at the point of submission.
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[title="2"]Deleting an Author[/title]

You can delete any author that has been set up by going to set it up, similar to how editing any other content in Composr.
Authors that have not been set up can not be deleted as they only exist due to references by other content.

[title="2"]A note about security[/title]

If you grant members the Conversr "Change own username" privilege (or equivalent in a 3rd party forum driver), then you may want to deny access to the "Set own author profile" privilege to regular members, as otherwise members could hijack any non-member-associated author accounts to renaming their account to match the name of that account.

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 1_key="Author"   1_value="Someone who specifically authors content, as opposed to someone who may merely have submitted it"
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[title="2"]See also[/title]

 - [page="_SEARCH:tut_users"]People in their roles[/page]

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