Michael R Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 I've been taking advantage of Articles quite a bit now that I have moved to 4.0. When writing articles, I find it easier to write the article first then later add images and do formatting later. Normally one would put the article in Draft during that time. I suppose I can publish the article and hide it but wouldn't it be easier to have a Draft status? That way others editors can view and make changes? I suppose Hidden would work. But to me hidden is more of an "unpublished" status. How do others do this?
Netherlord Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 Just now, Michael R said: I've been taking advantage of Articles quite a bit now that I have moved to 4.0. When writing articles, I find it easier to write the article first then later add images and do formatting later. Normally one would put the article in Draft during that time. I suppose I can publish the article and hide it but wouldn't it be easier to have a Draft status? That way others editors can view and make changes? I suppose Hidden would work. But to me hidden is more of an "unpublished" status. How do others do this? i write it up in notepad and then in the editor when its near ready. But i would like some sort of draft feature too.
Kevin Carwile Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 Why not create a "drafts" category for articles that only editors have access to. Then when the article is ready to go, move it into a public category.
chilihead Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 I set them to be moderated in the authors group, check them, set publish date, and approve. That's in 3.4 not sure how it works now. Save As Draft would be nice for the author.
Michael R Posted October 4, 2015 Author Posted October 4, 2015 There is no Published Date (that I have found). That would be sweet!
Ausy Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 32 minutes ago, Michael R said: There is no Published Date (that I have found). That would be sweet! You can enable this in the database - articles - manage fields.
Michael R Posted October 4, 2015 Author Posted October 4, 2015 2 hours ago, Ausy said: You can enable this in the database - articles - manage fields. I don't think that allows you to queue up articles to be published at a future date though does it?
Ausy Posted October 4, 2015 Posted October 4, 2015 6 hours ago, Michael R said: I don't think that allows you to queue up articles to be published at a future date though does it? No but if you hide them then you can change the publish date to when you actually want it available. Not ideal but for now..
Ali Majrashi Posted October 5, 2015 Posted October 5, 2015 22 hours ago, Michael R said: I've been taking advantage of Articles quite a bit now that I have moved to 4.0. When writing articles, I find it easier to write the article first then later add images and do formatting later. Normally one would put the article in Draft during that time. I suppose I can publish the article and hide it but wouldn't it be easier to have a Draft status? That way others editors can view and make changes? I suppose Hidden would work. But to me hidden is more of an "unpublished" status. How do others do this? this can be useful in one of my sites i use articles alot and i spent hours writing depends on the article size one thing i wish was shipped with articles the autosave function after many hours of writing if you press by mistake any back buttons or in mac with your track-pack can result to refreshing the page and the body fields been fully erased unless you saved it since the local-storage do not work for saved articles when you edit them
opentype Posted October 5, 2015 Posted October 5, 2015 On 4. Oktober 2015 um 05:35:03, Michael R said: I suppose I can publish the article and hide it but wouldn't it be easier to have a Draft status? Save it without publishing it in the first place and you have a “draft status”. I’ve never done anything else, both in 3.4 as well as in 4.0.
Michael R Posted October 5, 2015 Author Posted October 5, 2015 6 hours ago, opentype said: Save it without publishing it in the first place and you have a “draft status”. I’ve never done anything else, both in 3.4 as well as in 4.0. How do I save without publishing? I am using 4.0. When I click on Save it appears. I don't see any other options.
opentype Posted October 5, 2015 Posted October 5, 2015 You can click “hide” before even saving it. That’s what I meant. I save my articles all the time while I create them. In addition there is also a “publish date” field. You just need to activate it in the field options for the database.
Michael R Posted October 21, 2015 Author Posted October 21, 2015 Well THIS is interesting... Taking the advice of folks above, I saved the article to "Hide". But then I noticed a bunch of folks on my site commenting on a reply in my forums. I have the option set to publish to a forum. Ummm, call me crazy but what's the point? Now I have a link in the forums to a hidden article? Jeez!
chilihead Posted October 22, 2015 Posted October 22, 2015 If you use a future publish date it won't post the topic until it is published. Save as draft would certainly be nice but in the meantime I suggest a future publish date.
Michael R Posted October 22, 2015 Author Posted October 22, 2015 1 hour ago, chilihead said: If you use a future publish date it won't post the topic until it is published. Save as draft would certainly be nice but in the meantime I suggest a future publish date. Where is that? I don't see that under database field options.
chilihead Posted October 22, 2015 Posted October 22, 2015 I'n not on 4.0 but 3.4 has it, and in 4.0 I believe you have to enable it in options. Look in settings.
Michael R Posted October 22, 2015 Author Posted October 22, 2015 13 minutes ago, chilihead said: I'n not on 4.0 but 3.4 has it, and in 4.0 I believe you have to enable it in options. Look in settings. That's what I was asking. I don't see anything in settings like that.
chilihead Posted October 22, 2015 Posted October 22, 2015 Found it. It's in each database's settings: Database >> Manage Fields Publish Fields DISABLEDPublish Date DISABLED <------------ Expiry Date DISABLED Allow Comments/Reviews DISABLED Comment Cut Off Date DISABLED Record Image DISABLED
Michael R Posted October 22, 2015 Author Posted October 22, 2015 8 hours ago, chilihead said: Found it. It's in each database's settings: Database >> Manage Fields Publish Fields DISABLEDPublish Date DISABLED <------------ Expiry Date DISABLED Allow Comments/Reviews DISABLED Comment Cut Off Date DISABLED Record Image DISABLED Ahh, okay. In case anyone else was as dim as me... After you ENABLE it, make sure you set YOUR permissions to SEE it... haha
Kjell Iver Johansen Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 On 22.10.2015, 12.38.57, Michael R said: Ahh, okay. In case anyone else was as dim as me... After you ENABLE it, make sure you set YOUR permissions to SEE it... haha Humm.. Did you manage to get this to work with regular users - not admins? I'm kind of lost looking for the setting so that any users making articles - could hide it until they finally post... I have the permissions and publish settings right as far as I can see..
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