Re: [Hypercontent-users] More functionality - will be help for all

[tom t. <j_l...@ya...>]

Hi Alex,

Pls find my observations below. 
 
> There is currently no mechanism for assigning a tag
> to multiple  
> files, or for building based on that tag.

Will this be in the road map? Because of this
limitatio n content editing is limited to the next
publish only.
People can't do edits for future publising cycles.

> The scheduling does work.  The script that is there
> simply changes  
> the "current edition" flag of the targeted file, so
> that the  
> designated edition becomes active.

Can you explain what is this SCHEDULING means in the
workflow screen, I am bit lost on that. Is it only for
one source file. What is the meaning of their entries.
What exactly it does as far as the publishing life
cycle, will it publish or build ...that file?, What is
it's functionality?

What if I want all the content content to be
pulished/build on each monday. Can the publisher
define such a thing using the interfaces?

We need a good explanation on HC scheduling facility,
in terms of what is the depth we can go etc.
 
> Diff functions are not available currently.  It may
> be possible to  
> integrate an open-source diff library.

Do you have any intentions to have it in future HC
versions.


> You do not have to have a single "approvers" group;
> you can create as  
> many approver groups as you need as long as each has
> a unique name.   
> You will need to create additional copies of the
> approval workflow  
> configuration scripts for each content "area" and
> make a couple  
> changes, e.g.
> 
> ...
> <workflow binding="/scholarship/**/*.*">
> ...
> <email who="group:scholarship-approvers"
> subject="[HyperContent]:   
> Approval requested" content-type="text/html">
> ...

Yes this sounds good, but instead of forcing the HC
users to have different areas and have bindings can't
we do the following,

We define seperate groups in the groups.xml, but when
the author who doesnt have the approval rights saves a
page it goes to the workflow screen, in this page
instead of having one link (Request for approval)
can't I have many links e.g

Request for admissions approval
Request for scholarships approval
....
...

When some one click on this it will generate the email
for the relevant group.


Other question is if a file goes through series
changes on many days, How can we save these partial
updates without being getting published, provided if
there is a sheduled publish. Cant we have flag to say,
this is only a partial update.?




       
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