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Hi,
I have some questions about EE, cause I want to know if it could work for my site.
So, I will explain what functions the Site should have, and if somebody could say if this is all possible, i would be very happy.
My Site will be a Tutorial-Community.
I want a special way of this: Users should be able to sent their own Tutorials to the site, and when I accept them in the Control Panel they should be published in the Frontend. But thats not all, there should be a special editor for this.
I try to explain it:
Tutorials have always different steps. So I want a Editor, where you can edit every Step for itself. So in the beginning, you should choose a category and a undercategory. then you enter the ext of the first step of the tutorial. then you can upload oner or 2 images to illustrate the step.
so, when you are ready with the first step, you click the button “Go to step two” after clicking this, an new page is loaded, with again this step editor. so you will enter here your step 2 text, and then attach images and go on to step 3. so you will do until you are ready with the tutorial, and then you can click the button “tutorial is ready - safe it”
this button is placed always next to the “go to step x” button, so that you have full control about the length of the tutorial.
when the user clicks “safe tutorial” it comes to the control panel, where the admins have to acdept it, and can do little corrections about it, and then they klick publish and it appears in the frontend in the category the user have choosen.

So, now i would be happy when somebody could tell me if such a thing would be possible.

Sincerly yours, Thomas.
PS: sorry for my bad english, I´m german.

Hi, Thomas,

It is very easy to set up a work-flow where someone posts an entry and it has to be approved before it goes live. 

However, for your multi-form method, that would take some custom code and consideration.  Generally, you fill out a form to add all that information, and the form is not in multiple steps - you could potentially do this with the SAEF, but there is no out of the box method for it.  Have a look at our Development Documentation for how you might extend EE to do that.

Furthermore, if you need help with this, you might like to contact a few of the Pros on our Pro Network.

Okay thank you for your answer.
I have 2 further questions:
_here in the Forum, the URL´s are not as search engine friendly as in the frontend. I mean here the url´s are /forums/viewthread/id/ but it would be better if they were /forum/category/name-of-the-thread.html
is such a renaming possible and when yes why don´t you use it in the forum?

The second question is, it is able to show related articles (in my case tutorials) when you view this article?
so, when i am on a article site, thre is a box linked articles in it which are related to the one I am watching right now. this could be based on a tagging system e.g.
Does EE have such a functionality?

There is no out of the box way to have your forums of that name.  That would be best handled by a feature request, probably.

Yes, you can relate articles either by using Relationships or Categories; or even by the now certified Tag module, more than likely.  So several approaches there.