I've got a simple 2-stage workflow setup with a writer and an editor. I'm running into the following problems:
even through the approver has a valid e-mail and is set to receive emails on anything that is "pushed to review" no e-mail is being received
when the approver logs in, they can see the changes in the content, but under latest edits there is no entries. how can they see what was edited and when
Is there some dashboard functionality that can be provided so an approver can see the latest content and who submitted it? If an approver approves multiple writers it could get tricky fast.
Have you configured smtp in the web.config? Otherwise the e-mail will not be sent.
I think they should be able to see the changes by right clicking a node and choose "Roll back", which makes all the previous versions of the node available - but this might not be ideal and perhaps your editors don't even have this access.
However I guess it should somehow be possible to create a dashboard with a list of the edited nodes. You can probably create a user control to display the nodes. Then you need to go to the dashboard.config file in the "Config" folder on the filesystem to make the dashboard visible when the editor is logged in.
Good call on the SMTP, didn't even think about that.
On the dashboard, how would I begin something like this? I did some looking and couldn't find any dashboard tutorials. I guess it's just a matter of using the API and building a user control but some sample code would really help out.
Simple Workflow Problems
I've got a simple 2-stage workflow setup with a writer and an editor. I'm running into the following problems:
Hi Chris
Have you configured smtp in the web.config? Otherwise the e-mail will not be sent.
I think they should be able to see the changes by right clicking a node and choose "Roll back", which makes all the previous versions of the node available - but this might not be ideal and perhaps your editors don't even have this access.
However I guess it should somehow be possible to create a dashboard with a list of the edited nodes. You can probably create a user control to display the nodes. Then you need to go to the dashboard.config file in the "Config" folder on the filesystem to make the dashboard visible when the editor is logged in.
I hope this makes sense to you.
/Jan
Hi Jan,
Good call on the SMTP, didn't even think about that.
On the dashboard, how would I begin something like this? I did some looking and couldn't find any dashboard tutorials. I guess it's just a matter of using the API and building a user control but some sample code would really help out.
Thanks!
Hi Chris
Yeah, it can be easy to overlook the SMTP stuff sometimes :-)
Hmm...don't know if there is an explicit guide on how to do it...
But some resources for pointers could be these links
http://www.nibble.be/?p=27
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/967464/extending-the-umbraco-dashboard
Hope this helps.
/Jan
Jan .. you got to it before me again.. I knew the answer :)
I've been to busy to check the forums as frequently as before...
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