[pmwiki-users] Workflow?

[David Spitzley]

This sounds a >lot< cooler to me, as it then prevents anybody from editing the official version of the page as long as a draft is in progress.  I don't think I'd use it for any of my existing sites, but if I >did< need that functionality I think this would be a pretty simple approach for authors to deal with.


David

>>> "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> 11/28/05 2:13 PM >>>
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:50:36PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 4.  The "Save", "Preview", and "Save and edit" buttons work as
>     normal, except they're always working on just the "-Draft" page.
> 
> 5.  A new "Release" button is added; activating this button causes
>     the contents to be saved to the original (non "-Draft")
>     version of the page, and the draft version of the page is
>     removed.

An alternate approach:  The "Save" and "Preview" work as before --
i.e., saving and releasing the page, and removing any draft version.  
There's also a "Save as draft" button that saves the page as 
a draft, and any subsequent edit requests for the page load from the
draft copy instead of the released one (and display "-Draft" in the
title).  The "Save and edit" button works like "Save as draft" in 
that it saves a draft copy, but it returns the author to the edit 
form for more editing of the draft.