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gfuchs
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Sep 19, 2004, 9:09 AM

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Hi,

The organization that I maintain the website for has been interested in having a representative from each region (10 at this time) being able to create pages of information for their region. I had been going down the path that these people would be Trusted Writers.
Recently the Executive Committee decided they have a concern with info going on the website without approval.
This obviously means that they would now have to be Writers.
The problem I see happening is that they cannot update their work now, and will have to re-send the entire page everytime they want to make a change.
Some of these pages will be lists of events and such that just need a minor update.
This may become a major issue, and result in my having to seek an alternate solution, which I would really hate to do.
Not just wasting the cost of the product, but up until this point AM seemed the perfect way to do what we want.
What I really need is a way for Writers to change their work, still not able to publish, or for Trusted Writers not be able to publish.
(Not-so Trusted Writers i guess Wink).
Writers need to be able to edit their aticles, which would put the article back into pending, while leaving the previously published article on the site.
Ay ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Greg
International Society of Glass Beadmakers


(This post was edited by gfuchs on Sep 19, 2004, 11:25 AM)


Cliff
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Sep 19, 2004, 2:47 PM

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Re: [gfuchs] Writers not being able to change their work [In reply to] Can't Post
Hey Greg,

Thanks for posting.

If you want to give your writers the ability to go back and view or edit the articles that they created, then there isn't any way to get around bumping them up to Trusted Writers. Writers as you know can only submit content, but once it's submitted it's out of their hands.

What you may want to do is start people off as writers, and then move them up to a trusted writer account if find that they continually need to edit their work. Once they are at the Trusted Writer level, you can enable an email notification that is send each time a user submits or edits an article, so that way you can review their content if they are concerned about content going on the website without approval. That way the administrators will know when something is added and they can quickly check it out and edit it if needed.

I hope that helps, but if you need any more details just let me know!
Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
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spllrman
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Sep 20, 2004, 3:56 PM

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Re: [Cliff] Writers not being able to change their work [In reply to] Can't Post
I have the same problem. Many sites and organizations (including the one that I am working with to purchase AM) want to give writers and editors the ability to make all sorts of changes (both content-wise and technical), but fear that something will be published live for the whole world to see that is objectionable or libelous. I am working on a school newspaper project, and the school, understandably, wants to give us the ability to edit articles and make the technical changes we need, but does not want anyone else to have the ability to post live.

I don't know much about the kind of programming that it takes to design a program as expansive as AM is, but I wouldn't think that it would be too hard to create a couple of user levels where the user could edit articles or act as an administrator, but not have the ability to actually make a story visible for the world to see. Sure, an administrator can wreak havoc on the backend, but without the ability to make changes live without approval, the organization will not have to worry about being liable for anything that appears on the live site without its consent.

I think that adding this ability would make a lot of sites less worried about any content being posted live that could have a negative impact on the organization.

Thanks, and I am looking forward to a great product when my school purchases AM for our school newspaper, which will hopefully be within the next week. Smile

Dan Spiller
http://www.tattleronline.com

(This post was edited by spllrman on Sep 20, 2004, 3:57 PM)


Damon
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Sep 22, 2004, 4:49 PM

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Re: [gfuchs] Writers not being able to change their work [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Greg,

I was thinking about your user requirements and think that I may have a workable solution.

How about creating a category that your Trusted Writers would have access to but setting the category to hide published articles and category pages. This will allow you to have Trusted Writers that can edit their own articles but won't be able to publish any articles that are linked from the main site.

An editor can then review these articles and simply change the category to make the article live.

Here is the steps:
- in the Category Editor, create a category, named "Pending Articles" for example, and check the check box to "Hide published articles and category pages".
- in the Setup Options > Login Accounts, create users that are Trusted Writers with only access to the hidden category. For my example this is the "Pending Articles" category.
- add email alerts to the hidden category for an editor so they know when articles are created, modified, etc.
- now when a Trusted Writer logs in to Article Manager, they will only be able to add articles to the hidden category. They can still select article status but this won't matter as any published articles won't be linked or searchable until they have been moved into a category that is not hidden.
- after an article as been approved, the editor can edit the article and choose a category from the drop down list to publish it to.

I hope my idea helps a little.

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Jesus
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Aug 24, 2006, 4:20 PM

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Re: [gfuchs] Writers not being able to change their work [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi everybody!

and what happen when an editor corrects something on an article?

The article will be now invisble for the trusted writer, right? Is there a way to give a trusted writer privileges to be able to make corrections to an article without beign editor?

Thanks in advance


MikeB
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Aug 26, 2006, 9:44 AM

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Hi Jesus,

Thanks for posting! Smile

With the way Article Manager's user accounts are set up if you'd like a Trusted Writer to always be able to make changes to their content then you would need to provide them with access to write content that will go live onto the site. Damon's solution works great if Trusted Writers will make small changes before the article is published live to the site but once that article is moved to a visible category that user will no longer have access to that article.

I hope this helps and if you have any other questions feel free to let me know! Smile

Cheers,
Mike Briggs - Product Specialist
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maher
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Sep 1, 2006, 10:08 PM

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Re: [MikeB] Writers not being able to change their work [In reply to] Can't Post
Hello

I am facing the same problem, with my company, and I dont think that this solution can resolve the situation, because things become more confused for the editors, when they want to re-publish these articles to their final destinated category, as all articles now are mixed in one tempaorary category, and if there is many articles, he will be confused which ones are related to which category.

Thank you