This patch introduces the concept of unpublished nodes' administrator. This admin can do anything with unpublished nodes, but changing node->status.

Known problem: If you have some node types where the default workflow is to publish, for example storiy, and for some others you want to employ unpublished node administrators (UNAs). If you unpublish a story and a UNA changes anything in that, it will pop back to published state and the poor UNA will be unable to unpublish it. Possible workaround: UNAs never can publish anything, even if default workflow says "publish". Disadvantage: UNA will need to keep two accounts, one normal user who can publish stories and an UNA account.

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Comments

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

Shouldn't that be handled by workflow.module?

chx’s picture

workflow would benefit from this a lot, sure, but does not implement anything like this.

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

Status: Needs review » Closed (won't fix)

Nobody supported this patch.

nsk’s picture

it would be useful, as well as an admin for unpublished comments.