Posted by zfactor on February 20, 2011 at 6:24pm
Hi folks,
I am rebuilding our website in Drupal 7 and I want to build in a simple content publishing workflow process. I would typically use the Workflow module, but there don't seem to be any plans for creating a D7 version. I took a look at Maestro, which seems very powerful for creating business process workflows, but overkill for editing workflows among small teams.
Does anyone have recommendations on approaches to building out workflow processes in Drupal 7? I was thinking of just using Rules and Fields, but I would love to hear any other recommendations.
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Workbench
Palantir is working on a module called Workbench that is supposed to be released at Drupalcon Chicago. From everything I've heard (informally), it should meet the needs of small-team editorial process management.
Hi Ben, Thanks. From reading
Hi Ben,
Thanks. From reading the project description, it sounds like it will cover some of what we are looking for, but won't provide a full workflow process out of the box. There seem to be some other things in the module that we already have in our distro (i.e. centralized media directory through the Media module). I think I am going to go the Rules and fields route to see how well that works.
Unpublished forward revisions
This is all hearsay, but I think they're planning on breaking up the Workbench module into separate component modules. I do acknowledge that a benefit of building it yourself is that you can build the minimum workflow your client needs, rather than them wanting you to activate all the functionality ("Let's build a 30 state workflow for our 2 person staff!")