Rights management

Can I set up a group that has the rights to edit and add content. Yet it won’t be visible on the front-end as long as a user from another group hasn’t approved of that content. The ideal scenario would be that as soon as a person of the first group edits/adds content, a user from the second group gets an e-mail letting him/her know she has to approve of some content before it can be published online.

Is this possible? I’m thinking of a company where someone is responsible for publishing website content, but the boss wants to have a final decision whether or not to publish the content online.

You would need to have publishing turned off by default in the Configuration, and then make a role allowing your editors to edit and save but not publish. You would need to have a plugin using the onDocFormSave event to send the email. The plugin would be coded so that it only sends the email if the document is being saved unpublished; otherwise the poor manager would get emails every time a document got edited and even when he published it.

Ok, I see. So it’s possible but it would require some code adjustments.
Don’t want to sound rude, but I thought something like this was going to be standard in modx. It’s a feature my clients ask for a lot.

Quote from: bytte at May 10, 2008, 04:24 AM

Ok, I see. So it’s possible but it would require some code adjustments.
Don’t want to sound rude, but I thought something like this was going to be standard in modx. It’s a feature my clients ask for a lot.

Remember that modx has not reached 1.0 yet. It is still a beta, so not all features are finished.

How on earth do you consider the 096x branch beta? The fact it’s not been labelled "1.0" is purely arbitrary and not indicative of a beta status. The 0.9.7 rewrite however is in alpha.

MODx is not a dedicated blogging tool. Features expected of a news publishing or blogging script are not going to be "built-in". If such a feature is wanted enough, the community will develop the necessary plugins and release them in the Repository. Wayfinder, Ditto, Jot, eForm, MaxiGallery are just a few examples of community-provided add-ons.

Personally, I’ve developed dozens of sites using MODx and never once needed such a feature. I prefer to avoid the bloat of trying to make MODx the "Swiss army knife" of content management systems, and only add what I need to the core.

You can achieve this kind of workflow if you’re fine with having your users edit from the frontend, using the FDM (FrontEndDocumentManager) snippet

You’ll easily find the link, don’t have it handy and posting from my iPhone not convenient to do search+copy/pasting

Another lead is to make a creative use of the ManagerManager plugin to emulate such a workflow but you might need to tweak the current codebase for that plugin...