Editable post author

[rjmackay]

Migrating from #752 (comment)

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When editing a post's author and/or post date, here's what I've staged in the PL:

Logged out

When you encounter the "Add post" page, you'd see a summary of the metadata:

If you select "Change," the fields for providing author information replace the text-only appearance:

The rest works as you might expect. It's a typical form sheet.

Logged in

When you encounter the "Add post" page, you'd see a summary of the metadata:

When you select "Change," the fields for providing author information and customizing the post date replace their text-only appearance:

If you want to change the author, you can remove the existing "bug," which would change that fieldset's appearance to:

In this case, because you're logged in, typing into the author "Name" field will perform a search of the deployment's users and return matching results in a dropdown:

If you choose to simply type a name and not select an existing user from the list, the form will record your custom author name and (optional) email address. If you choose an existing user from the list, the "name" and "email" fields are replaced by that user's "bug."

Aha! Link: https://ushahiditeam.aha.io/features/PROD-675

[rjmackay]

@brandonrosage I think that looks workable but @jshorland suggested we should user test this since its adding a lot of complexity that may or may not be necessary.

[rjmackay]

While looking at #1399 I wondered - how does the user editor interact with posts with just an SMS number? or can I set a post to 'anonymous' when editing?

[jshorland]

So meta data also gets rid of our need for this right? because you actually edit author and date by clicking those chips themselves.

[rjmackay]

No. Meta data changes the UI for getting to user editing and other meta data.. but doesn't remove the work needed to actually allow editing users on the backend, and feedback on the actual UI of the edit user dialog (or fields if this goes in before meta data fields)

[rowasc]

Note: Probably solved through ushahidi/platform-pattern-library#205