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6/22/2009 7:17 PM
 

I'm curious how others are making changes to pages that are live.  I've seen modules by Engage that allow changes to text modules to be approved before they go live and there is the handy import/export in many of the text based modules of DNN. 

My current setup is to have a dummy page that only people in the Editors group can see.  If they want to change the announcements on our Home page I will export the announcements content and import it into an announcements module on the dummy page.  The user has edit permissions here so they will add the new announcement and when they are done the appropriate people will review it and approve.  Once approved it's back in my hands and I export the data from the dummy page and import it back on the home page.  Of course I will be adding a few more people to the moving between pages process so I'm not a bottle neck, but that's the general idea.

I'm running into a bit of a roadblock when it comes to redesigning a page (adding new modules, moving existing ones to new locations on the page, etc.)  I can't find a good way to do this on a Live page without the users being able to see the work in progress.  I could set the page to be only visible by our editors and they can go to town, get it approved, then change it back.  But that means the page is hidden from normal users until it's approved and that could take a few days.

How are you all handling this?  How do you make changes to a Live page and not have users see the inbetween steps of getting the page changed?  How do you handle updating the content of modules that are already on the page that need to be approved first?

 
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6/23/2009 12:56 AM
 

If you want work flow for Announcements and Text/HTML modules, you can use Enterprise forms which has a customizable and robust work flow which it leverages for these two core modules (in addition to its own highly featured forms module).

News Articles and Simple Gallery from Ventrian Systems have an approval work flow built in which is also sufficient for what you are describing. Some folks use News Articles as the main content delivery method on their site.

In my experience, most of the folks doing the editing are also the ones who are approving, so they just edit content in place and go. But where you have more contributors and one person primarily responsible for the published content of the site, some workflow is appropriate. Because I use Enterprise forms as a mainstay, that is the direction I would take.

That said - some of the changes between DNN 4 and 5 are described as being core refactoring in preparation for workflow becoming enabled somewhere down the line in DNN 5 ... I believe that is what I've read.


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