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Fred
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Aug 13, 2002, 3:19 PM

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Hello all, thanks for this service.

I manage an employee Intranet and am testing AM for suitability.

Currently, the non-AM workflow involves publishing pages to a "Staging" area, then moving the pages to a "Production" area when they go live. (I think this is a safety-blanket measure for folks here)

Does the "preview" option in AM make this workflow obsolete?

Or could one change the AM > server options > Publish URL from a "staging" to "production" folder to accomplish the same thing?

Thanks in advance...


MalaK_3araby
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Aug 14, 2002, 12:13 AM

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Hi Fred

are you talking about an article status?

if i am understanding, you want the article to be saved but not published :: in AM = article pending .. can achived through user rights .. where users can save article till you manually moderate it and change its status.

Need someont to verify that .. or you can try that in the demo.

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Dave
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Aug 14, 2002, 8:24 AM

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Hi Fred,

You could change the Publish URL (and Publish Dir too!) and click republish to create another copy of the site at a different page as you suggested. However, there might a couple easier ways as well.

If the purpose of the workflow was just so users could see their content before it went live, then yes, the preview button should suffice for that purpose. If it was so other staff members could "sign off" on new articles before they went live then you might consider setting up "Writer" accounts for the staff that create content and an "editor" account for whoever will approve it. Writers can create content and preview it but not post it live.

Hope that helps.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com