Editors can request the publication of pages or content from:
These publication requests follow publication workflows. Publication workflows can be simple. For example, an editor request the publication of a page or content, then a reviewer validates the publication or reject it. Depending on your organization or project, additional steps may be included in this publication workflow.
The number of pending publication requests display beside the Workflow button at the bottom of the navigation pane.
You can validate and review workflows from the workflow dashboard or from My tasks in the user dashboard. This section shows how to validate from the workflow dashboard. For information on using workflows from My tasks, see My tasks.
To open the Workflow dashboard and list the workflows available to you, click Workflow in the navigation pane. If you have the appropriate permissions you can see the Abort button, which you can use to directly cancel a publication workflow.
When you expand a workflow, options such as Publication review display. Clicking on Publication review displays the workflow step page.
This page displays the 3 same tabs as described in the publication dashboard:
Shows a summary of the number of items in the publication request and whether is content is modified, new, or deleted. The Title field describes the workflow.
Allows the user to see the potential comments that were added by other users, including the user who requested the publication.
Gives a detailed view of all the items involved in the publication process, item by item. The items are grouped under the page where they are in use.
Opens a new screen that displays the content as it is online ("Live version") on the left and its version to be published ("Staging version") on the right. To better identify changes, click Highlighting to highlight the text or elements that were added, modified, or deleted.
Click on the Publication review button of an item to open the content in Content Editor in "read-only" mode. You can see all the properties, but you cannot edit them.
The available actions on the workflow are available in the bottom right of the screen. In the above example, the user can publish the content or reject the publication, by clicking Publish or Reject publication.