Re: [Hypercontent-users] How to Delete Revisions

[Alex V. <al...@bi...>]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:49 PM, tom tom wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> I did the fix, and now it is working. Is there any way
> that we can enforce a rule that only approvers can
> delete the revisions (similar to the makecurrent
> feature in the revisions).

The ability to delete revisions is controlled by the "delete"  
permission.  It is the same permission used to determine if the user  
can delete files entirely.

>
> I got a different question which poped up in the user
> training session.
>
> If there are seperate 3 users (A, B, C), they only
> belongs to one group.
>
> A - Author
> B- Approver
> C- Publisher
>
> If user A does a change to a file and requests for
> approval and user B gets the request and accepts the
> change. The question is How does the publisher C know
> when to publish and What to publish.
>
> Between the Author and the Approver the process is
> streamline and works as per the expectation, but for
> publisher How can we establish such a mechanism.
> What is the best way to achieve the above.
>
> Thanks
>

You can add additional steps to the workflow in /config/workflow/ 
approvals.xml

For example, you might add some top-level queues for publishing  
(similar to what's in publish.xml):

<q id="topublish">
	<event name="dopublish" permissions="publish">
		<variable name="publisher" value="${actor}"/>	
		<copy path="${path}" source="/build/" destination="/publish/"  
force="false" delete="true"/>
		<nq who="${publisher}"/>
		<nq q="publishing"/>
	</event>
</q>

	
	<q id="publishing">
		<event name="batch-complete">
			<dq/>
			<nq q="published"/>
		</event>
	</q>
	
	<q id="published">
		<event name="batch-reset">
			<dq/>
			<nq q="publishing"/>
		</event>
		<event name="archive" who="${publisher}">
			<nq q="archived"/>
			<dq/>
			<dq who="${publisher}"/>
		</event>
		<event name="auto-archive" when="in 20 minutes">
			<nq q="archived"/>
			<dq/>
			<dq who="${publisher}"/>
		</event>
	</q>	


You can then forward the item to the "topublish" queue and send an  
email to publishers when the item is approved.  You would do this by  
modifying the "approve-change" event in the "approval" queue

	<event name="approve-change" permissions="approve">
			<exec command="org.hypercontent.workflow.command.SetCurrentEdition">
				<with-param name="edition" value="${edition}"/>
			</exec>
			<nq q="topublish"/>
			<dq/>
			<email who="group:publishers" subject="[HyperContent]:  Publish  
needed " content-type="text/html">
					<![CDATA[
					<h3>Please publish
					<a href="${abs-server-base}${path}? 
mode=interactive&screen=workflow.approvals&work=${work-ticket}">$ 
{path}</a></h3>
					]]>
			</email>

		</event>


-Alex