[Web4lib] Content management systems

[Matt Grayson]

I wrestled with the workflows module for a while. The thing that did me in
was inability to *easily* create new, unpublished revisions while leaving
the current revision published. That's something else people should watch
out for when evaluating Drupal - when a user without publishing permissions
creates a new revision of a page in Drupal, it un-publishes the page from
your site.

I did some work on a patch to revisions for 4.7
(http://drupal.org/node/48731) that has since been rewritten as the Revision
Moderation module (http://drupal.org/project/revision_moderation). In the
end, we decided moderation wasn't worth the time and trouble as long as we
had the ability to revert to prior versions of a page.

Matt


On 3/19/07 10:02 PM, "Mark Jordan" <mjordan at sfu.ca> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
> 
> The workflows module (http://drupal.org/project/workflow) may do what
> you require. I have also implemented an approval process in a custom
> module where user submit site entries, which my module injects into the
> database with an "unpublished" status that a user with the appropriate
> permissions can approve. The  entries do not show up to anonymous users
> unless they have been approved. The module is very specific to my site
> (i.e., not very generalizable as a module), but I'd be happy to share
> the details with you if you're interested.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> Matt Grayson wrote:
>> We've been using Drupal at http://library.utmem.edu/ for almost a year now
>> with a fair amount of success. Drupal 5 has just come out with quite a few
>> improvements and I'm looking forward to upgrading. The biggest challenge
>> we've faced with Drupal is the lack of support for "real" publishing
>> workflows - where all content changes go through an approvals process. On
>> the whole, though, we're pleased with how Drupal has performed.
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
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>> On 3/19/07 2:41 PM, "Jonathan Bloy" <JBloy at edgewood.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> I'm starting to look at adding a content management system to my
>>> library's website (yes, I'm still in the era of manual editing).  I'm
>>> aware of some of the biggies like Drupal, Joomla, etc., but I'm curious
>>> to know what people are using out there in the library world.
>>> 
>>> What CMS are you using?  What do or don't you like about it?
>>> 
>>>  - Jonathan
>>> 
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>>> Edgewood College
>>> Madison, Wisconsin
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