Drupal content approval - Part 1 (setup)

More and more clients are using centralised and de-centralised teams to publish content on their website.

This raises the question of approval processes and workflows for the content within a website.

With our Drupal solutions it is easy to create simple workflow capabilities, advanced author notification requirements and even email notifications while focusing on ease of use for authors and administrators.

This video is Part 1 of a 3 part series introducing the setup of workflows within Drupal.

Part 2 covers the Author role.
Part 3 demonstrates the Approvers role.

We based our video series around demonstrating the following criteria:

Admins need
• Simple point-and-click interfaces to create or configure workflow rules.
• to be able to apply workflow rules on a section-by-section or user-by-user basis.
• the site to be fully functional even when workflow is not enabled.

Authors need
• to be able to save content in ‘draft’ format, even if workflow isn’t enabled.
• to ‘preview’ content at any point in the workflow
• to be provided with simple one stage linear workflow if their role permits
• dashboard to review status of content

Approvers need
• dashboard to review status of content
• ability to receive email notifications on approval requests