Frog CMS - New Role

New Role - Author

4 posts, 2 voices

Oct 27, 2009 16:41 springie 4 posts	As per my post in General. Would be good to see a new Role =‘Author’ introduced to the core. The Author role would be like an editor but wouldn’t be able to publish. Possibly a new status ‘For Review’ or similar so the admin can review and then approve page or not. More advance would be to duplicate page on save as ‘For Review’, so the current publish page remains unaffected. Not sure if anyone thinks this would be worthwhile?

Nov 10, 2009 02:08 mxvirial 3 posts	i would find this very very useful, its the only thing stopping me from using frog for other applications- having to develop my own cms instead. a

Nov 10, 2009 03:10 mxvirial 3 posts	maybe we could just create a new user type and lock the page status to ‘for review’ and show it on the homepage of editors/admins so they can approve. Willing to donate if someone develops.

Nov 10, 2009 12:26 springie 4 posts	I was coding up a rough solution to it. Basically, i have it so that the editor role cannot change a page status to ‘published’, however the downside is if they edit a published page it drops from the live site as it cannot be published again by an editor. So, I was just going to make it so in the pages view i hide all published pages from editors. I was then going to just make copies of all the pages and put say Page Name (dev) so they can eidt the page etc and then an admin comes in and then can just copy the code or publish the page, then copy it back to (dev) again. Its not ideal, but for what i was going to use it for it would have worked. I can let you know if i get it all working.

Nov 23, 2009 07:37 mxvirial 3 posts	ahh yeah that seems to be a little issue, maybe it could detect the changes and then allow the admin to apply them…..