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We are setting up a site and trying to figure out how we are going to handle editing and permissions. I have read this knowledge base article about setting up a basic workflow, and that’s fine as far as it goes. But I would like to go further - what I really want to happen is when a user edits a page, or an existing post, for that to go into an approval queue before it’s published live, but with the “previous” revision of that post still showing up. Right now what happens if a user edits an “open” post is that the post disappears altogether until the edit is approved.

Any ideas? thanks,

Mark

Hi Mark -

To my knowledge having two versions of a post in the same weblog, one live and one working through a revision process - isn’t currently possible.

I think this is where people either investigate separate staging and live environments for the entire site or separate weblogs (if you share a field group between weblogs you can from the edit screen move a post back and forth).  In the latter case they will be separate posts however, and you’d have to keep an eye on the url_titles and entry_ids if your site depended on them.

Mark,

This sounds like a wonderful idea for a feature request: keep old approved version in “open” status, until new version is approved.

Thanks for the feedback!

One thought I had, that would get me pretty close to what I’m looking for, would be to write a little extension that would immediately revert to the previous revision whenever someone from a given user group edits a post. Would something like that be possible? Can anyone point me to resources that might provide some guidance? 😊

Mark