By dugawug on

Is it me or does the workflow module only work on new content? That is, you can take new content, pass it through your pre-defined steps, and then choose to publish the content once approved. However, it doesn't seem you can pass existing content through this same process, am I right?

I'm used to Spectra, a very old CMS from Allaire. With it, you can workflow any type of content. When you edit existing content, a copy of the object (node) is made, workflow edits are made to that, and once it is approved, the new object/node overwrites the existing and wah-lah! But Drupal's workflow module seems to not even come close to doing this. Is it just that I've heavily misunderstood the module?

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ablivio commented

Which versions of Drupal and the Workflow module are you talking about?

I use the workflow module on D5 and it also operates on content that was created before I installed it.

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dugawug commented

I'm on Drupal 5.1 and was using the one and only option for Workflow on 5.x. Maybe I didn't install/configure it correctly, but I never got the workflow radio buttons and menu area when editing any new content. Only when creating new.

So if you have it operating on existing content, do you have any idea how it works? What I mean is, does it allow edits to be made to a node/page in a workflow fashion (step 1, step 2, etc.) WHILE maintaining the content live on the site? Then when the workflow is finished and approved, the new content replaces the old?

That's what I need it to do and that's what doesn't seem possible. All I was getting was workflows to content that's not published.