NSM Publish Plus: Workflow Management Extension from Leevi Graham

Do any of the WYSIWYG extensions work with NSM Publish Plus?

I have used it just fine with tinyMCE.

Thanks James, I appreciate the reply.

Hey, I’m consider purchasing this extension, it seems to be exactly what we’re after. Just have a quick question first though… I’m just speccing out a job now and think that I may have to use SAEF forms, does Publish Plus play nicely with them? Thanks

Interesting question… At the moment I will say no it doesn’t but that’s only because I haven’t tested that scenario. Publishing in the admin and SAEF are two completely different kettles of fish and I’m not sure that the same hooks will even be fired.

Hey there,

I’m in this situation now, working on a site that relies heavily on SAEF’s, and have just figured out that they definitely don’t play nice with Publish Plus, which is a real disappointment here. Basically, the draft gets saved as we’d like, but the original entry still gets edited as well.

Do you have any updates for us on this?

thanks! -eric

p.s. I’ve no fear of messing with the internals of extensions, etc, if you have pointers for where I could mess around, too.

Hey team,

Great plugin so far but I am experiencing one small issue.

I have purchased the extension set up weblogs and created new member groups for both ‘Editor’ and ‘Publisher’ rights. I have then applied the appropriate privileges to each member group via the extensions/NSM Publish Plus settings.

If I log in as an editor (in this case a user linked to the editors member group) and submit an article for approval it works fine. However if I log in as the publisher (a user linked to the publisher member group) I am unable to change the status from ‘closed’ to ‘open’ but I can ‘approve’ the article…

If I log in as super admin I am able to change the status which is not sufficient when I launch the site.

Is there something I am missing here? I have gon into the Statuses Menu and played around there for a bit but nothing I do seems to work.

HELP.

Kerran

Hi Kay,

It sounds like you haven’t allowed the publisher access to the ‘Open’ status. In the status administration area… click on the edit link of the ‘Open’ status and make sure that ‘Publishers’ have access.

Hey team, Great plugin so far but I am experiencing one small issue. I have purchased the extension set up weblogs and created new member groups for both ‘Editor’ and ‘Publisher’ rights. I have then applied the appropriate privileges to each member group via the extensions/NSM Publish Plus settings. If I log in as an editor (in this case a user linked to the editors member group) and submit an article for approval it works fine. However if I log in as the publisher (a user linked to the publisher member group) I am unable to change the status from ‘closed’ to ‘open’ but I can ‘approve’ the article… If I log in as super admin I am able to change the status which is not sufficient when I launch the site. Is there something I am missing here? I have gon into the Statuses Menu and played around there for a bit but nothing I do seems to work. HELP. Kerran

I have just now created a new member group called ‘super FAKE admin’ and ticked every box possible when setting it up and this user STILL cannot change the status of an article…. weird.

Hi Kay, It sounds like you haven’t allowed the publisher access to the ‘open’ status. In the status administration area… click on the ‘open’ status and make sure that ‘Publishers’ have access.

Hey Todd, thank you for your prompt reply - please see image below to see whether this is what you were referring to or not. If it is then I have already tried that with no success. :/

Image of the status memu

Yes, that is what I was talking about. Hmmm? You definitely have that status group assigned to the weblog in question?

Its strange Todd,

For two reasons: 1) I only actually have 1 status group called ‘Default Status Group’. 2) The only status group as ‘3 statuses’ as per image in my second post (above) yet while I am Super Admin I can only see two statuses when editing an article in my weblog.

To make matters worse I don’t know whether this is an issue with the extension or framework…

..Kay

Is there any more recent information about how to clear the list of drafts / revisions? I’m guessing that there is a potential performance issue here too?

thanks for any help

Huw

There haven’t been any recent updates to the extension. We have been waiting for nearly a year for the ability to delete drafts and still nothing. Supposedly a version is being beta tested… but even on that front I haven’t heard any updates in several months.

I’m interested in creating a page where our authors/editors can see all entries in the system that have a pending|changed status that need their attention.

Of course, the weblog entries tag isn’t going to do this for us out of the box.

<ul>
{exp:weblog:entries site="website" weblog="section" status="Open|Closed" state="pending|changed" orderby="title" sort="asc" limit="100" disable="member_data|trackbacks|comments" paginate="bottom"}
<li>{title}</li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>

Any ideas on how one might go about doing something like this?

If I can get this to work, I will then add an “Edit This” link on the entries and our content authors will have a streamlined way of getting to stuff that needs attention.

Thoughts? Ideas?

A custom query would likely be your best bet. Something like:

{exp:query sql="SELECT * from `exp_weblog_titles` WHERE `nsm_pp_state` = 'pending' 
OR  `nsm_pp_state` = 'changed'"} {title} {/exp:query}

Also send me an email and I’ll send you an updated version of the addon.