Posted by yelvington on October 27, 2009 at 8:29pm
I've been looking at the Workflow module and like what I see.
However, I can imagine the following scenario:
- Item goes through normal workflow (author -> editor -> published).
- Item needs revision.
OK, now I have a problem. The item is live, perhaps in a featured position on the site, yet it needs to be updated, and the update needs to go through an editorial review process.
How do I do that, without having to create a new node? Has anybody crossed this bridge?
Comments
That's where revisions come in ...
See for instance Revision Moderation or the 3 tutorials mentioned on the Revisioning project page. The third one specifically deals with using Revisioning in combination with the Workflow module.
Revisioning
Thanks, Rik, I will give Revisioning a try.
Hi I'm using Revisioning for
Hi
I'm using Revisioning for just that. It certainly does the job, but there's what I find rather a confusing change to behaviour that comes with it. It's OK if you use the Module Grants panel, but if you want to use your own views or the node/edit form it may bite you. Check out http://drupal.org/node/602146.
I have our workflow set up so
I have our workflow set up so that stories go from creation to draft to done, with a revision state in the middle.
The original author can edit the story in either creation or draft states. Once it's been marked as draft, an editor may approve it or send it back to the reporter/author for revision. Once it's been marked as done, only an editor has permission to further edit the story, or demote it to a revision state again for the original author to work on it further.
It works out pretty well, but we're not doing any complicated revision tracking here either. 95% of our stories never change when they are uploaded, and the ones that do never really require a reporter to do the changing.
Until October when our Drupal site launched live, our managing editors never considered the possibility of reporters filing their own stories online for editorial approval. Editors were the only people that had access to upload a story. As of right now, unless it's a major breaking news story, that's still the case, though we are keeping the workflow in place for the future as we'd like to move to a more elegant approach.
content_moderation
Seems like content_moderation is the solution. You can define states and transitions, also who can do those transititionson what content type. It is not that flexible like workflow, but it works on revisions. But just have a look yourself, there is also a videocast
I actually would love to have done this task with workflow or integrate it, but there is one seriuos problem. Workflow cannont have a relation to a revision, only for nodes. While i found this project http://drupal.org/project/workflow_relationships .. i cant see yet a way to integrate that.