K2 and Joomla! ACL in interaction with news template

I know you don't give support for extensions that are not yours. Anyway because i always got very good answers here, i want to give it a try. Anyway the question is less technical and more related to experience and thought. If you think i am in the wrong place please simply ignore me, i will survive it

I believe there are several ways which have to be creative to solve my issue.

I am happy with K2 and the News-Template. They interact in a great way. Now i would like to make a very simple permission structure for the Backend Access and the Access to the K2 Component. No problem so far. I can setup a group which can only access the k2 component in the backend.

As the UserGroups and Permissions in K2 only control the Frontend editing, it won't be helpful (as my Users need backend Access) to use it. So i ignore it.

Is there any way to implement the simple "Author - Editor - Publisher" structure to the K2 component? Or - if i want to grant backend access - it will always be a "all or nothing" solution?

If i don't find a solution for this i will have to deactivate K2 and run the magazine part of my website via the native Joomla Articles System, which basically is no problem as the modules of the template offer to fetch the items from there. If i do so, am i missing a lot of features of the News-Template in interaction with K2?

I know there is never a perfect solution but i don't want to make mistakes now which will cause trouble in a long term.

Hi

Unfortunately i do not know the solution, because never have done anything like this, but I'm sure you will be able to find an additional extension which will give you a possibility of making that. Please just search joomla extension site.

Hi,

I´m also searching for a simple solutions to deal with ACL in K2 backend.
Hi need to grant acess to a group of users (Author Group) for creation and edition of articles only to certain K2 categories in backend.
After creation, this articles need to be aproved for publishing by a user with that privilegies in backend (Manager Group).

Have you find a way to deal with this issue?

Thanks,
Semedo

Hi

I think You shouldn ask in K2 forum, they may know such extention already.