By daveredfern on

Hi,

is there a module which allows you to save content as a draft instead of posting it straight away. I want to setup a blog which has articles and when writing them i like to do them in sections and save them.

dave.

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poorhouse commented

The equivalent to that feature might already be in Drupal core if you are the main user (or I think someone with permission to "administer nodes"). When you go to write your articles, there is a Publishing Options section under the box you write in. In that you can untick "Published" before submission and the article won't be shown on site - essentially a save as draft.

Then when they're done, go to edit the article, tick the Published box, submit, and it will appear on site.

You might also like to install the workspace module as an easy way of re-finding your draft articles to finish them off.

If you are a "normal" user rather than the admin user (or one with node admin privileges) however, you don't get the Publishing Options part of the page. A while back I found it less than intuitive how to recreate the save as draft feature. In the end we got a decent approximation using the Workflow and Actions and Workspace module, but there may be far better ways.

Good luck!

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plumbley commented

You could do this in two ways:

(1) Give yourself "administer nodes" access. Then you could uncheck the "Published" checkbox (under "Publishing options") so your post doesn't get published. [Edit: ... as poorhouse says above.]

(2) As administrator, go to administer > settings > content types and click "configure" for your content type (e.g. "page" or "story"). Then set the default publishing options to e.g. "Published" unchecked and "In moderation queue" checked (so you can filter them later).

In either case, an administrator can then go to administer > content, select the posts to be published, and use update option "Approve the selected posts".

Hope this helps,

Mark.
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