Hi Connie

Have you tried using the "Send for approval" option? You can read a little bit about it on Chriztian's article about how we did the 24days site here under the "Notifications" heading http://24days.in/umbraco/2012/wrapping-up/

Could this help?

/Jan

We currently use the Send for Approval with our existing Umbraco 4 site. It works ok, but it's not a true approval workflow. I cannot require that a department head approve content and then the communications dept. approve before a page goes live. There is no built in rejection method. Also, I always felt it very dangerous that when someone starts editing a page, it isn't checked out or locked so someone else doesn't edit at the same time.

Found a commercial plugin http://www.moriyama.co.uk/products/workflow-for-umbraco/ not sure if it really works or not. I don't even know if it works in Umbraco 7 or not.

Hi Connie - did you manage to find a solution to this?

New out is Plumber written by Nathan Woulfe. I've had a quick look at it and it has loads of features, though it would be better to direct questions to him. He did create a Reddit post to discuss this

Thanks for the shoutout, Jonathan!

Connie, like Jonathan mentioned, I've written a workflow package, it's still in beta but please have a look...

There's a live demo site at http://plumber-demo.azurewebsites.net, with a set of test users:

Username: TestUserA - TestUserF Password: UserAPassword - UserFPassword

It's not available in the Umbraco package repository just yet, but should be soon. The latest build is available from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/nathanwoulfe/umbracoworkflow/build/artifacts as an Umbraco package, ready to install.

Nathan, I looked at the package but cannot get in as the approver: TestUserF

I also tried to install plumber but the install threw an error

Version 7.6.3

An error occured

Wrong Local header signature: 0x474E5089 Exception Details ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Wrong Local header signature: 0x474E5089 Stacktrace

at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipInputStream.GetNextEntry()

at umbraco.cms.businesslogic.packager.Installer.UnPack(String zipName, Boolean deleteFile)

at umbraco.cms.businesslogic.packager.Installer.Import(String inputFile, Boolean deleteFile)

at Umbraco.Web.Editors.PackageInstallController.PopulateFromPackageData(LocalPackageInstallModel model)

at Umbraco.Web.Editors.PackageInstallController.Fetch(String packageGuid)

at lambda_method(Closure , Object , Object[] )

at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ActionExecutor.<>cDisplayClass10.9(Object instance, Object[] methodParameters)

at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ExecuteAsync(HttpControllerContext controllerContext, IDictionary`2 arguments, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ApiControllerActionInvoker.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ActionFilterResult.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.AuthorizationFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.AuthorizationFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Filters.AuthorizationFilterAttribute.

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.

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