Is there some place I have not found yet or some package which provides a list of unpublished pages? I'm looking for a sort of approval queue so our content approvers have a single place to go to see which changes are awaiting publishing?
Nice idea for someone to create this as a package.
We actually developed a custom dashboard for one of our clients that listed all new items that had been added to their site ( un-published via the API ) that then needed their approval before being published. We built this using a .NET control added onto a dashboard page.
Thanks for the reply, Chris. You'll have to ignore my ignorance of the non-administrative view of content but isn't there some sort of send to publish button when you don't have publish rights? What does that do? I also see GetDocumentsForRelease in the document API, does that just list the documents which have a publish date in the future?
Sorry for the silly questions, I don't have umbraco installed where I am right now.
I've created a Content Maintenance Dashboard package which can filter documents by published state etc. When you install the package its available in the developer section of the site but when you modify the /config/dashboard.config file and change it to content it will be available in the content section of the site.
That is nifty, Richard. It isn't quite what I'm looking for since pages which are already published but have a newer unpublished version still show as published. I'm going to spend some time on this issue this week, I might just hook into the ActionSave handler and send an e-mail. I'll share whatever I come up with.
Approval Queue
Is there some place I have not found yet or some package which provides a list of unpublished pages? I'm looking for a sort of approval queue so our content approvers have a single place to go to see which changes are awaiting publishing?
Hi Simon,
Nice idea for someone to create this as a package.
We actually developed a custom dashboard for one of our clients that listed all new items that had been added to their site ( un-published via the API ) that then needed their approval before being published. We built this using a .NET control added onto a dashboard page.
You can find out more about dashboards here:
http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/packaging/package-actions/add-dashboard-section
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks for the reply, Chris. You'll have to ignore my ignorance of the non-administrative view of content but isn't there some sort of send to publish button when you don't have publish rights? What does that do? I also see GetDocumentsForRelease in the document API, does that just list the documents which have a publish date in the future?
Sorry for the silly questions, I don't have umbraco installed where I am right now.
Hi Simon,
I've created a Content Maintenance Dashboard package which can filter documents by published state etc. When you install the package its available in the developer section of the site but when you modify the /config/dashboard.config file and change it to content it will be available in the content section of the site.
Hope it helps you,
Richard
That is nifty, Richard. It isn't quite what I'm looking for since pages which are already published but have a newer unpublished version still show as published. I'm going to spend some time on this issue this week, I might just hook into the ActionSave handler and send an e-mail. I'll share whatever I come up with.
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