Sorry I've been looking at the workflow module and am unsure how its supposed to work.

I want authenticated users to create content which isn't automatically published. When they create it they should get an email saying that their content will be reviewed.

Then I want a user with a role of 'reviewer' to be able to accept or decline the content . Again an email should be sent to the user saying that the content has been approved or disapproved. Finally I would like the content to be published under a menu say for example 'user contributed items' if the article is approved.

It seems to work in a way similar to this but I don't see a queue?

Please forgive the ignorance. I'm just not sure how to set this up correctly and I'm unable to find any examples on drupal.org.

regards,
Athas

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oliver soell’s picture

oliver soell commented

workflow can do this for you in conjuntion with actions. Actions provides, well, actions, which are triggered when a workflow goes from state to state.

So, you can set up a workflow for your content type, have 2 states other than the "creation" state - review and approved, for instance. Allow the author to transition from creation to approved, and allow the reviewers (create a role) to transition from review to approved.

For actions, you can have one that sends email when the author transitions the content to "review." When the reviewer transitions to approved, you can trigger another email, and also trigger an action to make the node published.

play around with that for a while..

cheers,
-o

dingbats’s picture

dingbats commented

This video helped me, http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/drupal_actions_and_workflow_video

deekayen’s picture

deekayen commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Oliver is correct in his description. In 6.x, this would also involve using the trigger module, but what you've described is exactly what workflow can do alongside actions.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.