Frog CMS

Hi, I have a site build in frog where i want to give access to a person to be able to edit a page and its contents but NOT be able to publish it.

What I require is some sort of workflow, so that this person makes a change to the page and saves it in draft mode (hidden would also be good). I then can review, and publish to live.

I aussumed that the editor role might prevent a user from publishing, but it allowed me to select all statuses.

So, my question is and am I doing it wrong? or do I have to customise frog to accept a new role say ‘author’ with custome permissions?

Thanks, I thought the roles may have been setup for this by default.

I have now customised it with a quick IF statement, so Editors cannot publish. Will do the job :)

Yep, I’ll put it up soon when I get back to work. It just an If statement nothing flash.

Its good in the fact an editor cannot publish and if they edit and save a published page it will be resaved as a draft, so the administrator can check an republish.

This can also be bad too, as they can edit a published page and as it saves as a draft it dissapears from the site.

To counter this I started modding the code so that an editor will only be shown hidden pages in the page view. This works in my situation … sort of.

I am thinking the pages the I want to be edited by an external person (editor) i will copy and change the status to hidden. With the code mod above, the editor will only be able to edit the hidden copies. When a change has been made, the page status will go to Draft, then i will go in and check the code/contents, then either delete the original then rename or just copy + paste the new code in to the old page.

Does that make sense?

It not ideal but will do the job for this situation. Ideally the editor could edit all the pages and on edit would be copied automatically and set to a draft or ‘up for review’ status.