eZ Publish Knowledge Series: Editorial workflow with Object States
Tuesday 24 March 2009 5:00:00 am
When creating your eZ Publish-based web media application, you will create Object States matching the different phases of your editorial chain. From the administration interface, navigate to Setup, and click the « States » link in the left menu. You can see, listed, the different so-called «Content object state groups», as follows.
Enter the relevant information in the proposed object-state edition screen, in all applicable languages (the object states feature natively supports languages), as follows. Then click the « Create » button.
Then create the various object states, mapped to your editorial chain. In order to do so, you will need to click the «Create New» button under the «Object states in this group» block, from the object states group full view. Note that the first state in a group will be the one applied by default to objects. It should eventually look like this :
Note that the «Ready to go live» state was added, final logical step of our editorial chain.