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Ticket: Draft Previews Outside Control Panel

Status Resolved
Add-on / Version Publisher
Severity Trivial
EE Version

Nick Lane

Jul 15, 2013

We have a client need where neither editors nor publishers would be responsible for “sign off” on the content of a new or updated page. Instead, we have staff members in select departments which need to simply view the changes and fire off an email to the publisher with their comments. It is preferred that these staff members not be required to login to EE in order to view.

In light of this, Is there a way to create unique URLs for drafts, in order for these changes to viewed beyond the control panel?

The client’s proposed workflow would be the following:

1. Editor makes changes or creates a new page.
2. Notification is sent to publisher, who channels it to appropriate internal contact
3. With approval, publisher makes the changes live, or sends tweaks from internal contact back to the editor for revision and process repeats.

This is required due to the heavy regulation in their industry. Any feedback or best practices with Publisher would be welcomed, thanks!

#1

BoldMinded (Brian)

Hi, Nick. Right now there is admittedly a bit of a disconnect between approvals and front-end previews. You can view the draft of any page by just adding ?publisher_status=draft to a page’s URL (the exp:publisher:toolbar tag adds buttons to the page to toggle this for you). In the near future I plan on adding security tokens to these URLs with time limits, so the approval emails can send a URL to someone to sign off on it by viewing it on the front-end. I don’t know when this will happen exactly as I’m in the middle of adding EE 2.7 support. I might be able to get to this within the next month or two.

#2

Nick Lane

Thanks Brian! I just re-read the first sentence on your drafts page. For whatever reason, I didn’t catch this (face palm).

The security tokens idea would be absolutely perfect. Looking forward to it.

Thanks again!

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