203How to Manage Author/documentation/tutorials-english/75-basic-usage/203-how-to-manage-author.html
The author tab is meant
to manage authors (users) and list info about them and their items You could say that - item's manager TAB already has filter per user - and statistics TAB has totals items of user But Authors tab has more INFO AND FILTERS and makes it more easy to manage authors.
to provide a way to configure a frontend end "author view", this is implemented via the category view. The author management allows to define "category parameters" for the author
You can assign 3 options for present an author's avatar: -- (a) a FLEXIcontent item (already implemented) -- (b) the Joomla contancts details (NOT implemented yet) -- (c) the user profile of the community builder or other similar components (NOT implemented yet)
Will add an AUTHOR list in the frontend that (NOT implemented) that will: -- (a) open joomla contact details/CN user profile in a modal popup window -- (b) link to author items