Contact manager

The integration of users(authors) with FLEXIcontent is already done for v1.5.6 for J1.5, because we want to have author like view aka "author items" and "my items"

But about contact information, we only display the contact info now.

Also, i don't think you need to use the standard contact since v1.5.6 has an option to assign any item to any user (=possible author) as his/her description.

Thus you can create a new types e.g called 'authorcontact' and 'usercontact' and assign any FLEXIcontent field to these types.

This way you would have something a lot more powerful presentation of any user (authors or not) than standard contact. Would that not be sufficient?

(I will create an new menu options to display these items (=description) specifically, since now they are displayed only when you view the authors items)

This will not implemented for v2.0, but for v2.1 or later.

Regards

I'm not sure — I need to be able to make a page that includes all the users in a certain category, even though some of them might also belong to another category.

It might just be because I really don't know how to use FlexiContent fields — would I be able to achieve the above with them?

an idea
1 create an author type
2 create your template
3 create a categorie author
4 create 1 item for one author
load your categorie
it's done

If I understand this correctly, each author have to have a minimum of 1 item assigned to them. Then I guess my next problem is — we have more than 1,000 users, and it would flood the item list — can I go around that?

You want to create a list of all authors(=users) that have at least one item in a specific category, right?

Actually, I don't need them to have an item. Some users won't even have access to create new items.