Help define Workflow in MODx.

Might one approach be to create a template for each stage of the work flow, use manager manager to limit visibility and access to each template based on a role. The various editors/roles would switch the template to move a document to the next step in the workflow. Each persons would see only those documents queued up for their role.

Plus all the other stuff you said.

Using a template sounds interesting, I just wonder if the additional templates are really needed. The tools are the same for all users, content editing, so there is no real need to change the template. TVs are tied to user groups so you can restrict which users can edit, they are simply not available for thse who cannot edit them. Also I think I recall a request to include role based rules in ManagerManager which would fit in with this method perfectly.

We have Template based solution and a Role based solution..keep the ideas flowing.

Quote from: dev_cw at Jan 28, 2009, 06:25 PM

This is an overly simplified blueprint but it seems like a good starting point. I am sure there is a much more sophisticated method to do this. Any ideas?

I don’t know if this will fit with your process with regards to coding, but here’s an article I’ve found for reference purposes and just thought it might help.

"A documents starts out as private. The owner of the document submits the document for publication, changing its state to pending review. In case he then decides to perform additional edits to this document, he can change its state by pressing retract, and he document will again be in private state.
After the document was submitted for publication and a user with the reviewer role logs in, all the documents that are pending appears on his review list. The reviewer can then either send them back to the document author for future re-writing (in case it require more finetuting etc.), which moves it back to the private state, or publish the document, which leaves it in the published state."

source: http://tinyurl.com/ybtm7wu