Approval of content before publish
dugawug - July 5, 2008 - 01:53
Can someone tell me the best way to achieve this? Most ideally, I want to allow a large group of content editors but before any of their edits actually go live, I want the ability to have one or more people in another group (admins) to be able to see the content (and the log message left by the editor) and either approve and publish it, or cancel it and block the edit.
I tried looking into the workflow module but so far I couldn't get it to do this. Maybe D6's workflow module would suit it better? Any other choice?
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investigate the modr8.module
revision moderation?
sounds like you want moderation of revisions and/or a save-as-draft feature. modr8 is more basic in terms of what it does.
See:
http://drupal.org/project/revision_moderation/
http://drupal.org/project/save_as_draft
You may turn off "Published"
You may turn off "Published" option in your content type settings and create a role able to publish, then create a View (only visible for moderators) with handy Fasttoggle integration for rapid moderation.
This is the approach i used in some cases, i hope it is interesting.
I'm playing with a test
I'm playing with a test site, and I tried shutting off Published thinking that would be the simplest way to moderate content. I keep getting "Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in C:\AppServ\www\test\includes\common.inc on line 1265" anytime I try to publish something. If I reset the Published setting to be on in the Workflow settings, it saves it just like it should. I really wish I could figure that one out.
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works fine for me on a fresh install of 5.9 with no modules.
Check your version and check your modules.
disabling modules one at a time, if necessary to find a conflict.
I tried modr8, and it does
I tried modr8, and it does do what I needed to control publishing. I found that I still need to have the Published box checked, as well as the "In moderation queue" one. If I don't, it still gives me the Fatal error as before. If I have Published checked as well, it puts the article, or whatever, into the line to be moderated.
By the way, I'm using Drupal 6.3, and I checked to see if all was up to date. It didn't help. Asl long as I can get these results with modr8, I'm happy.