Posted by guvser on September 25, 2011 at 10:36pm
I am building a news website, but would like to make sure that the journalists are not writing the same articles at the same time. How can i avoid this?
At my old website (not drupal), i made a text box for the journalist to fill in with a short description of the article he was going to write befre being let onto the creation page. In the meantime, other journalist could see in content list that an article was already in process of being written.
Any suggestions?
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I don't know of any module
I don't know of any module that does that — maybe someone else does and can chime in — but I've been working on writing a custom module for our paper that organizes a budget. That sounds similar to what you're looking for? I was going to do it with a custom node type — a "budget" — and then add fields with node relationships to that ...
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else is making something (or has made something) similar out there.
Nondisplaying fields
Just add a couple of fields to your story content type for the due datetime and budget text, configure them to not display, and use Views to create an administrative interface. If you're using Workflow (D6) or Workbench Moderation (D7), you'd probably want to tap into their fields, too.
This is a great solution. The
This is a great solution.
The only suggestion I have is that the uniqueness module - http://drupal.org/project/uniqueness - can help someone find similar articles from around the site. That could be beneficial for the use case you described (preventing duplicates) but also for purposes of helping writers find previous works they might link to.
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thanks for your responses. As
thanks for your responses.
As i understand it, you want me to create a content type for the temporary data (is that what you call "the budget"?) and then - using workflow (i use d6) - send the user straight to the "real" content type after he has completed it?
And then build a view for the content of the temporary data..
Actually, if you go by
Actually, if you go by yelvington's suggestion, which is probably the easiest to implement.
You would add a field to you article content type that basically mimics the "text box" idea that you had on your previous site. In the display settings for the content type you should make sure to set that field display to hidden for both the teaser and default node display.
Then you could create an "administrative view" for those who are able to create stories. The workflow module has this feature for D6 and the Workbench module does this for D7. In the administrative view, make sure to add that "text box" field, so that whatever a writer has written in there will display for each story. This way, when someone goes to create a story they can glance over this admin view and see (based on what they wrote in the "text box") if someone else is writing the same story.
Hope that makes sense.
Desktop Drupal 7 & OpenPublish 6
I am a minimal techie trying to set up a newsletter. I want to use the Desktop Drupal 7 & OpenPublish. But when I look at the OpenPublish download it says 6. Does this mean I have to use the Drupal 6? I have done the tutorials on Drupal 7 and for the non-techie like me, it dramatically simplifies things! I would really prefer to use Drupal 7 with OpenPublish.
Any idea when the Drupal 7 version of OpenPublish will arrive?
Thanks, Ron
Alpha for D7
http://drupal.org/project/openpublish
Thanks, Ron
Thanks, Ron