To save everyone time, here is the plugin for editorial collaboration: http://www.solutionexchange.info/assignit.htm
-Jian On Feb 15, 9:20 pm, Jian Huang <jhuangsoftw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tony, I think Markus just answered the question. > > With the page collaboration, here is a built in functionality to assign it to > someone else even when it is draft. If that is not enough, I wrote a plugin > so user can do that and send email via CMS. I posted the solution on > solutionexchange. OpenText support can also provide plugin when asked. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Tony Chung <to...@tonychung.ca> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Does anyone else see the idiocy of this? Why can't OpenText have an > > interim stage where pages can be released but not set to publish until > > it gets into workflow? > > > We have different problems in our environment where multiple authors > > share content responsibility on the same pages. It's a huge headache > > to force drafts to be released in order to pass the work onto the next > > stage. And with enough headaches publishing each project into its own > > space, I couldn't imagine publishing to a secondary project. Also, > > what if someone chooses the wrong project? > > > As for the boss who can't be bothered to log in, that problem is > > solved by active directory. Visit the CMS page, get logged in. Then > > open the link to the preview window, specifying the page GUID. Only > > works if you have access to those pages, but if they're all released > > anyway... > > > Thanks for listening, > > -Tony > > > On 2012-02-15, at 5:36 PM, Markus Giesen <markus.gie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> The ideal solution for this is a second project variant. > >> Call it Preview or Staging and use the normal HTML templates for it. > >> Set it to "publish pages saved as draft" for this variant. > >> Then create a publishing target ideally on a password secured or > >> internal server. > > >> That's it. Hope that helps? > > >> On Feb 16, 5:08 am, "Ray Evans" <ray.ev...@wd-deo.gc.ca> wrote: > >>> Struggled with this for a while as well... using the draft state and > >>> publishing it to a different publishing target seemed to create another > >>> set of problems. > > >>> In the end, I created a development publication package, and then > >>> created a Development Area node in the site tree where editors can > >>> create new content. All content in this node uses the development > >>> publication package, and publishes to an internal site where new content > >>> can be reviewed. > > >>> When they're ready to go live with a page - or set of pages, I > >>> disconnect them from the development area, and then reconnect them to > >>> the appropriate section within our live site tree. > > >>> If there's a set of pages (a page with a number of child pages), I do > >>> have to remember to update the publication package - when disconnecting, > >>> the development area publication package remains assigned to the child > >>> pages list. > > >>> Cheers, > > >>> Ray > > >>> From: reddot-cms-users@googlegroups.com > >>> [mailto:reddot-cms-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > >>> noti...@endtransmission.co.uk > >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:36 AM > >>> To: reddot-cms-users@googlegroups.com > >>> Subject: Re: Has anyone found a good way to show draft previews to > >>> non-cms users? > > >>> Have you tried a big stick? ;) > > >>> If the boss just needs to see it in situ, you can always set up a > >>> separate project variant with it's own publication target. This will let > >>> you publish out draft content somewhere that people can review it. > > >>> Paul > > >>> On 15 Feb 2012, at 15:00, Dmitry Terner wrote: > > >>> We get asked this by CMS users all the time and so far I have not had a > >>> good answer for them. The story goes "I have a boss who cannot be > >>> bothered to log in and review something but I need to show them the > >>> progress before submitting the changes. Also they have no imagination so > >>> they need to see it in situ" I'm paraphrasing .... slightly. > > >>> So does anyone know of a good way to tackle this? > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> - Dmitry > > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. > >>> To view this discussion on the web > >>> visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/reddot-cms-users/-/0_UhG4szsfwJ. > >>> To post to this group, send email to reddot-cms-users@googlegroups.com. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> reddot-cms-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> For more options, visit this group > >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. > > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to reddot-cms-users@googlegroups.com. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> reddot-cms-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> For more options, visit this group > >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "RedDot CMS Users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to reddot-cms-users@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> reddot-cms-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group > >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RedDot CMS Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to reddot-cms-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > reddot-cms-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. 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