[pmwiki-users] Workflow?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

Here then, is my proposal for a workflow recipe.  

1.  Each page has a released version and an optional pending 
    version indicated by "-Draft" in the page name.

2.  When an author requests a page edit, the workflow recipe
    intercepts the request and transforms it into a request to
    edit the "-Draft" version of the page.

3.  If the "-Draft" version doesn't exist, or if it exists with
    a timestamp earlier than the released version of the page, then 
    the released version of the page is used as the source.

4.  The "Save", "Preview", and "Save and edit" buttons work as
    normal, except they're always working on just the "-Draft" page.

5.  A new "Release" button is added; activating this button causes
    the contents to be saved to the original (non "-Draft")
    version of the page, and the draft version of the page is
    removed.

6.  The workflow recipe suppresses pages ending in "-Draft" from
    pagelists and search results.

7.  All other actions work as before, and consider "-Draft" to be
    a separate page from the released version.  

Pm