Multi-person article-edit before publishing?

Monday 04 April 2005 6:47:26 am

Hi,

This is how I would implement this, just by using template code:

- add a boolean (checkbox) field to the article class to mark it for "public" display, for exampel "is_ready".
- in the article display (full/line) views add a check on both the boolean field and the current user groups to see if an editor is logged in and act accordingly in a {section show=....}

{* init $current user if necessary with let current_user=fetch(user,current_user)
and 
suppose the group (object id) of the editors group is 13 *}
{section show=or($current_user.groups|contains(13),$node.data_map.is_ready.content)}
{* display the article *}
{section-else}
{* do not display the article, but maybe show some kind of a message *}
{/section}

hth

-paul

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Monday 04 April 2005 8:12:02 am

Hello Paul, Xavier,

thanks first for your quick answers!

But I don't understand your solutions. As far as I understand Paul, he keeps articles from getting visible - that's nice, 'cause my editors could no save (not save draft) and the next editor can modify the article. But what about all published articles which still exist? Wouldn't they become invisible?

Xavier, if I understand you right, it is necassary to write an custom module - this is far beyond my possibilities.

I think I try Pauls solution, maybe I can solve it with a mysql update over all existing articles or modify the template language (which is new for me too) to look after the checkbox only if it exists.

I'll try that first thing tomorrow!

Thanks and kind regards,
André

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