A little help for a redactor in chief
heliks - April 20, 2009 - 12:57
Hello everybody,
I've already got my website up and running (www.musicalavenue.fr) but I need some help as it is getting bigger and starting to have new people who write for it.
I would like to know to do the following :
- How can I let some users create nodes, but prevent them from publishing them directly (so that the nodes are only created and wait my approval to be published) ?
- How can I get automatic alerts that such a node has been created by one of my users (so that I go and read it online in order to publish it) ? I would love it to be e-mail alerts or a special RSS feed, if possible
You got it, my role here is the role of a redactor in chief who has to manage a team of journalists.
Thank you in advance for your kind help !
Heliks
check the module
check the module workflow
user A create a content -> user B prove read then publish
this is what workflow used for.
good luck
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Thank you very much ! I just
Thank you very much !
I just have one question : does this module automatically send notifications or can it be configured in order to do so ?
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Depending on how fancy you want to get, you don't need a module for this. For very simple cases, I simply set the default on the content type to be unpublished, then add a view of all the unpublished nodes, with an edit link, to the account page of the publishers (and you can easily add a feed for this view). Publishing is tied to the 'administer nodes' permission by default. If you don't want to give out that powerful permission, you can use the http://drupal.org/project/publishcontent module to split out just the publishing permission.
You can also do basic notifications (ie email someone when a node is created) with core triggers and actions.
If I were to add any module for publishing workflow these days, it would be the http://drupal.org/project/rules module-- not workflow. Rules is far more generically useful in many many more ways then workflow. Rules also augments core triggers and actions to give you more control over the type of notifications you can send (ie only notify if unpublished content of content type x is created).
Other modules you might wish to look for before workflow are:
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ejournal module
Ejournal module can be used for this type of job too - but it organizes the articles into some sort of issues (that can be whatever you like though).
When an author creates the node, it is visible only to the editors. After the issue is published (by chief editor normally), the article is made public.
When the node is created, ejournal sends an e-mail notification to given address. And you can set up the access rules for different roles as you want (if you need them): author, editor, chief-editor, proofreader, staff, others
http://drupal.org/project/ejournal