Cloner: Feature Request - Reset Author
Development and Programming
The Cloner extension empties the “entry_id” field so a new entry can be created. However, if an entry is ‘cloned’ by a different author, it tells that author that they “…are not authorized to perform this action.”
I believe this is because the entry is being saved with the original author’s ID.
This can be “fixed” by giving the affected member group permission to “change the author name when posting section entries.” However, I don’t always want them to be able to do that.
After an entry is “cloned” into the edit form, I would think the entry should be treated as a new entry from that point, taking on the author ID of the person who created the clone (unless otherwise specified).
In my experience, cloning does preserve the original author - and I imagine the behavior of not allowing it is new to 1.6 when it became required for someone to be in the multi-author list to edit someone else’s entry (something that has caused me quite a bit of frustration).
I actually do a lot of cloning as the super-admin of a site and it is useful to me that it preserves the original author, so I’d hope for this to somehow be optional.
I’d rather see that multi-author requirement bagged, but maybe that wouldn’t completely solve your problem.