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I know that EE has custom status groups and you can set the default status as well. But what I am wondering is if EE can handle something like this:

There are 2 user roles, an author and an admin. The author can publish new content, but it is always assigned a pending status. Before it shows up on the site an admin needs to look over it and approve it by setting it to open. Now the tricky part. If an admin publishes an article, it should automatically be set to open.

Is this possible?

everyone out playin with their iPhones?

Is this possible?

*yes*

playin with MyPhone, be right back ... hahaha.

In fact, that’s very similar to how I have mine set up.
I have several contributing writers, and a few editors, and I alone, am the one who determines WHAT gets published on the site.

My writers have 2 status’ they could use, Pending and Done.
Same for my editors.

scenario:
Writer spends a few days writing something, during this time, the status is set (default) to PendingWriter. When he is ready to submit, he changes the status to DoneWrite.
When it is flagged as DoneWriter, the editor changes the status from DoneWriter to PendingEditor and makes the edits, proofreading, spelling, contextual errors, etc.
When the Editor is done with his/her job, they flag it one final time from PendingEditor to DoneEditor.
I then make final approval, and change it from DoneEditor to Publish.
😊

Make sense?

How would you go about doing this? I only see an option to set the default status of a weblog. I would set that to pending but I would only want admins to be able to have the status go to open immediately.

But in your scenario, how do you prevent a writer from just setting the status to publish? I would only want certain users to be able to select certain statuses.