IMPLEMENTING AN APPROVAL PROCESS BEFORE A REVISION GOES LIVE (LEGACY) - Mar 10th, 2011


As of Version 2.07, the ability to preview a page before it goes "live" is built in to CMSB.

If you're using an older version you can still implement an approval process so that you can approve entries before they
can be seen by the public.

Assuming you're using a multi-record editor, you can hide a record form your public web site pages using the special
"hidden" checkbox field. If you set it to be an admin only field to only administrators and section managers can take a
record live, but not the original author.

You could get really slick by setting up a special copy of the viewer for this information with the code:



'where' => " hidden = '0' ",



In the list records call at the top of your viewer

Setting the user account permissions for editing by author and changing the owner (Created By) after approval is one way
to implement an approval process and prevent further changes by the user.

In a single record editor you’d have to create a new set of “for Approval” fields and once the new information is
approved, the admin or section manager would have to paste the approved information into the “live” fields.



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