Editor/publication improvements #10021
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We use Craft extensively, and with many people (~50 authors) working in the CMS, we quite often run into some issues and chase unwanted changes. The purpose of this discussion is to provide some insights in to the some adverse effects that prpvisional drafts, automatic merges and some other features have on platforms where many authors collaborate. Hopefully, helping Craft to make the system even more awesome and manageable. Overly sensitive change detection The proofreader will then tell the author what needs to be changes, and the author makes the changes. However, the proofreader often does not see the changes, because he/she/they/them will have to discard their changes (which where none) first, and they often fail to see that this is the case. It's actually two problems I'm describing here:
Field change detection not localized Independant drafts Why, if you create a draft for the German site, is the Draft created for Spanish, Dutch etc. Even with the drafts updating themselves with canonical changes, we quite often by accident overwrite content on production. The scenario here is as follows:
Some good optimizations here would be:
One additional note to make here, is that by doing this, the history that is listed for changes in an article will be more accurate. Because the person that publishes the draft wil automatically for all sites be listed as the person that made the latest changes, even though in a lot of scenario's he really didn't for most site Localized publishing dates and authors
By some hack-ish solution we have just created a new table with: To store these values localized, and we throw them into place in the |
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Appreciate the feedback, however it is difficult for us to work with discussions like this that cover multiple areas. Can you please focus the discussion around a single requested improvement (e.g. single-site drafts) and post a new discussion(s) for other suggestions? |
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Appreciate the feedback, however it is difficult for us to work with discussions like this that cover multiple areas. Can you please focus the discussion around a single requested improvement (e.g. single-site drafts) and post a new discussion(s) for other suggestions?