[Imc-drupal-dev] Workflow for stories (i.e. draft -> review -> published)?

[Rob Heck]

Hi Ben,

Your site looks very nice! I've recently finished the very simple
http://tampabay.indymedia.org using Drupal. I'm currently the only
active editor, so I just set the default publishing options to
"published," which goes into the Newswire sidebar that I created with
the Views module. If I want to move a story to the front page, I edit
it and check "Promoted to front page." I also use vote up/down and
voting actions to automatically change a story to "promoted to front
page" when it receives a certain number of votes (from registered
users).

In case I get help in the future, I have installed the Override Node
Options module ( http://drupal.org/project/override_node_options ) to
get around the issue you identify with giving editors the overreaching
"node admin" permission. It basically creates a more limited
permission that just allows the editing of the publishing/workflow
options.

I'm nearly finished documenting exactly how I built tampabay
indymedia. I will share as soon as I'm finished.

Take care,
Rob


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Rob Heck
352.613.0621
dejitarob at gmail.com
http://dejitarob.wordpress.com
http://tampabay.indymedia.org


On Nov 12, 2007 9:32 PM, Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Howdy, I've been working on a drupal IMC at http://reboot.stlimc.org. The
> site dev has been done largely by me, and, unfortunately, not as well
> coordinated with this group as perhaps it should have been.
>
> Anyhoo, something that I've had difficulty setting up is a coherent workflow
> for editorial stories and newswire stories. In particular, I was hoping to
> implement the following workflows, based on those from dadaIMC:
>
> Editorial Features:
>  A. Draft (visible to eds) -> B. Peer Review (visible to eds) -> C.
> Published in center column (visible to all)
>  - transition from state A to B occurs when author has completed story (e.g.
> unchecks a box marked "Draft" or something)
>  - transition from state B to C occurs when a proposed feature receives
> enough votes from editors
>
> Newswire Stories
>  A. Initial submission (visible to all) -> B. Promotion to feature (visible
> only to eds?) -> C. Published in center column (visible to all)
>  - transition from state A to B occurs when the story receives enough votes
> from users or editors (different vote thresholds for users vs. editors)
>  - transition from state B to C occurs when a proposed feature receives
> enough votes from editors
>
> Users/editors should be able to opt for email notification about any of
> these state changes, e.g. "a story was just submitted for feature
> consideration..."
>
> Drupal has the workflow and actions modules, which should be ideally suited
> for this task, but I've encountered a problem with setting up workflow
> states with restricted access (e.g. draft stories only visible to eds)
> because of incompatibilities I found between the workflow_access and
> taxonomy access modules.
>
> Furthermore, I'm reluctant to use Drupal's built-in published/unpublished
> property since A) that only represents 2 states, and B) that would require
> giving all editors Node Admin access, which makes for very cluttered node
> submission forms that can confuse less-than-web-savvy editors. There are
> hacks related to the published/unpublished switch, but they don't look
> pretty. Also, the Node Admin access would let eds circumvent revision
> control (e.g. change a story w/o storing the previous revision), which can
> become a problem with accountability.
>
> On the up side, I was able to create a functional voting system whereby
> editors vote features into publication using a combination of taxonomy
> access, voting API, voting actions, vote up/down , and a custom action to
> assign taxonomy terms. Maybe this would be of use to the IndyDrupal project?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ben West
> westbywest at gmail.com
> http://savetheinternet.org
>
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