We're using a fairly simple workflow to transition stories from draft -> live -> archived on our site, where "live" is the only state where unauthenticated users can see the story.
While Workflow for Drupal 6.x has a "schedule the next state change..." option (which is great, we use it heavily), it would be fabulous to be able to schedule multiple state changes in the future. Specifically, we'd love to be able to have a use case like this:
- Editor enters a story, puts story in "draft" state
- Editor iterates until the story is ready
- Publisher schedules a date/time to transition the story from Draft->Live
- Publisher also schedules a date/time to transition the story from Live->Archived
- When the time comes, Workflow/Drupal makes the story live on the site and our visitors enjoy the fine writing
- When the time comes, Workflow/Drupal makes the story unavailable for unauthenticated users
Specifically, we can sorta do this by scheduling one transition at a time, waiting for that the pass, and then scheduling the next transition. But it would be much mo' betta if we could schedule everything all at once -- fire-n-forget, so to speak.
Is this possible today? Or something that's on the Workflow roadmap?
Thanks!
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Did you ever get a decent
Did you ever get a decent solution to this? I'm thinking of using CCK date fields and Rules scheduler but wondered if there were some decent alternatives.