Workflow
This group is for people interested in workflows and actions.
It is intended to be used for
* discussing ideas
* sharing use-cases
* planning future development
Workflow with term permission?
Hello,
Is it possible to use workflow with a permission based on term? I.e. a publishing workflow, every article is assigned to one (or more) term in a vocabulary. Each editor can access into only certain terms.
Edit 1: to give more info, a comparison of different taxonomy permission module http://groups.drupal.org/node/21915
Organizing and Scheduling Content
I maintain a Drupal newspaper website and we're looking to improve the process for soliciting and publishing articles. The goals are to consolidate the process and make things more efficient for editors and authors to collaborate, as well as to provide some organizational tools to map out when articles will be published over the coming weeks or month.
Workflow resources (sub-modules, recipes?)
Are there any resource sites for Workflow-driven apps? Someplace that has pre-built workflow sub-modules, recipes, exported views or panels ready for import, etc?
I'd like to have flexibility both with interactive WF state tools (used by privileged roles who push content through the states) and in displaying tables of WF content. But I haven't found any prepackaged stuff, and rolling my own seems like it's very complicated and full of pitfalls (due to my limited knowledge).
How to get into workflow
Hi everybody,
I'm fumbling around with the workflow-module and I'm running into walls here and there. I watched a few screencasts but everywhere something is left out. The first talked about actions but won't talk about activating trigger-module and so on.
At the moment I got a basic workflow running but the permissions won't work. So I ask if someone here knows a step by step tutorial for a basic workflow. Including creation of users and setting their permissions right.
Revisions while parent is still 'live'
I've been looking at the Workflow module and like what I see.
However, I can imagine the following scenario:
- Item goes through normal workflow (author -> editor -> published).
- Item needs revision.
OK, now I have a problem. The item is live, perhaps in a featured position on the site, yet it needs to be updated, and the update needs to go through an editorial review process.
How do I do that, without having to create a new node? Has anybody crossed this bridge?
Last chance for workflow support in D7 Core
While the more expansive workflow features that were proposed did not make it in time for code freeze, we still have an opportunity during the current "code slush" period to make a few key alterations to the underlying Drupal database. This will enable further development in Contrib of comprehensive workflow and content moderation modules, with an eye towards D8. However, time is running out. After October 15, all hope is lost.
Mass schedule stage change
I am working on designing a Drupal site with the Workflow module for a college newspaper that is produced weekly...
We have a workflow set up such that an article is uploaded, section edited, copy edited, and then scheduled for publication the following day.
Is there a way to mass schedule every node that is in the "copy edited" to change to the "published" stage at a specific time?
Thanks!
Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most Out of Workflow Management in Drupal
Brenda Boggs will be hosting a Webinar - Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most Out of Workflow Management in Drupal - on Aug 27th at 1:00 PM ET.
She will be presenting:
* Best practices for implementing, managing, and streamlining workflows in Drupal
* Learn what options you have for creating workflow processes in Drupal and what modules you should consider.
* Answers to frequently asked questions on roles definition and permissions, actions, triggers, and other hot topics.
We hope you will join us.
Please register at:
http://acquia.com/community/resources/webinars
Opportunity for better workflow/content moderation support in Core
The upcoming Drupal 7 update brings with it a great opportunity to provide better support in Core for advanced workflows with content moderation, but the code freeze is fast approaching and this opportunity may pass us by. I encourage all developers to check out Support Revisions in Different States in the Drupal issue queue and lend a hand.
Why you should care?
Workflow + subscriptions - trigger by action rather than "published"
Please comment on how you are invoking email notifications, in general and for taxonomy subscriptions. Does anyone see a problem with workflow and drupal access model and/or 3rd party modules that supply that type of functionality?
With workflow, the natural point at which an announcement notification message should be sent is when the content changes to a certain workflow state -- e.g. "Posted". And the tools I see available for this task range from "send a tokenized email to a role" via the Token module (token_action.module) to the Subscriptions module.
Introduction to Workflow Movie???
I don't get what 'Workflow' is about. As a subject I mean. I know that sometimes a user posts content that needs approval, and so in this sense there's a flow of work, as the user posts, the administrator approves, etc. And my brother works in a company that use Lotus Notes to create their own email-based applications. Ones to do with Workflow. Example: employee fills out holiday application form & sends it to his line manager, who responds to it & sends it to various people, etc. Stuff like that.
New Adobe.com article: Building Drupal Zen sub-themes with Dreamweaver CS4
The third article in my Drupal series for Adobe.com is out now. This article covers Drupal Zen Sub-Themes, including Dreamweaver tip(s) when working with Drupal themes.
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Work flow problem
Hello all
i am also facing same problem in work flow
i have create publishing work flow with state as draft,review,rework,unpublished and published and created a n action for that my question is if i change the state from unpublished to publish state why the content remains in not published state weather i am doing wrong thing or should we click on publish in publishing option inorder to publish the content please any one could suggest an idea how to do automating publishing and un publishing of content using work flow
thanks and regards
Workflow information in Panels
I searched for this kind of features, but haven't found any suitable solutions. There is need to display workflow state information and instructions at node page. Ofcourse, there is wonderful Rules module, and I could use it's "show system message" action. Hovewer I find using Rules with Panels is too embarassing: event "content is going to be viewed" is not fired at all, and "user is going to view page" has too few things to work with. To use Rules for this, one would have to use too many PHP, which I think is killing the purpose of Rules
Please give the author permission to go from (creation) to at least one state!
Hi all why i am getting this error
"Please give the author permission to go from (creation) to at least one state!"
while assigning the transaction for different states
My states are
(creation)
Draft
Review
Rework
Unpublished
Published
users are
editors
reporters
author
regional editor
any body pls help me
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Creating a workflow in an installation profile
Hi all,
Is it possible to create a workflow in an installation profile? I have code that works perfectly in a normal context, but fails to function when I run it in my installation profile.
When I dig down into the code, it appears that drupal_write_record inside the workflow_create() function fails to write the record, after which of course nothing else can work.
I've tried to include various .inc files like database.inc and common.inc to no avail. Other database functions like db_query() seem to work just fine.
Any clues appreciated!
Tom
Placement of Workflow settings on the node/add form
Hi, First off, thanks to everyone who contributed to this module; it's great.
We've got Workflow up and running and it's working very well. We've hit a minor snag (which happens to be of great concern to the client) and it's my job to fix the problem.
We've applied Workflow to two content types;
Content Type A has the states:
draft
submitted
published
in-process
closed
Content Type B has the states:
draft
submitted
publish
expired





