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I want to update a channel entry and save it as a draft. I am the admin but I need someone else to review the changes before it is published. This would be either a new channel entry or an updated one. Much like it's done in WordPress. Is there an adon or can I do it natively in EE.

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You can use the native entry statuses to accomplish a draft status. If you review the documentation on statuses, you'll see how you can edit the status group and add draft alongside open and closed.

Then, you'll just have to make sure your status group is assigned to the channels you're using to publish the content.

By default, the {exp:channel:entries} tag will only show entries with the status of open, so none of the content set to draft will be visible on the site.

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  • This is probably the simplest solution to the OP's problem, I think. It sucks that you have to sacrifice your channel's status group, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
    – kmgdev
    Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 14:40
  • Kristin, what else do you use statuses for that would constitute "sacrificing" the status group for workflow purposes? Just curious.
    – Jeremy Gimbel
    Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 17:09
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I use Better Workflow for this. It makes life much easier when handling scenarios like what you have here. Another approach I have used, while not as pretty, was to establish statuses, and build a exception to block all but local traffic through a firewall (in this case, using Big IP from f5) and building multiple templates. One of the templates will be prefixed with the exception rule, so if you block all outside traffic but allow internal traffic with say 'internal_', your templates could be 'article' and 'internal_article' where 'article' only displays 'open' status and 'internal_article' displays 'open|draft'.

It's messy and complicated though. That's why I just fold and use Better Workflow. ;)

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    Keep in mind that using Better Workflow will prevent you from using custom Statuses on any of your entries. And while Electric Putty does a phenomenal job supporting BW, it is prone to frequent bugs, so you'll likely spend a lot of time troubleshooting issues as EE and add-ons are updated.
    – kmgdev
    Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 14:38
  • Good to know about Better Workflow ... Thanks
    – seeingis
    Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 15:15
  • @kgrote I'm with you on the statuses. In my cases, I have used other means to achieve what I need from the previously used statuses. As far as the "buggy" bit, I guess I've been pretty lucky thus far. I haven't had to deal with them. ;)
    – W3bGuy
    Commented Sep 18, 2013 at 20:42
  • I should say the level of bugginess goes up in relation to the number of third-party fieldtypes you use. So if your site isn't particularly complex, you'll probably be fine.
    – kmgdev
    Commented Sep 19, 2013 at 0:00

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