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    • Staging and Approval in Tiki 6.0

    Posted by botiki
    Hi everyone, I am new to Tiki and recently researching on Staging and Approval feature of Tiki6.0. I couldn't find a clear documentation for configurating this feature, tried to switch on Staging and Approval feature on admin panel, set up two groups and two categories for stagged and approved status and so on. Now my problem is I couldn't find any place to approve wiki page after I created stagged page. can anyone tell me a clear steps of configuration? many thanks
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    Posted by botiki

    it seems that staging and approval issue is a bit challenge to Tiki. I saw some unsolved questions back to June of this year. I could find any information on Tiki6.0 so followed following steps(might be sample on Tiki5.0 or older):

    Imagine a site where

    • Anonymous see nothing
    • Registereds see the approved pages and not the stagging pages
    • Authors see the staging+approved pages. They can edit staging

    pages. They see all the pages: They can categorized with other
    categories the pages.

    • Approvers see the staging+approved pages. They can approve

    pages.
    The groups are included in each other
    Anonymous < Registered < Authors < Approvers

    Group perms

    • Registered
      • tiki_p_view

    • Authors
      • tiki_p_edit
      • tiki_p_wiki_view_history
    • Approvers
      • tiki_p_remove
      • tiki_p_rename
      • tiki_p_rollback



    If you have other categories, you can add tiki_p_view_categories... as global permissions to Registered

    2 categories

    • Staging
    • Approved


    Categories perms

    • Staging
      • Authors: tiki_p_view_categorized
      • Authors: tiki_p_edit_categorized
    • Approved
      • Registered: tiki_p_view_categorized
      • Approvers : tiki_p_edit_categorized


    Wiki staging setting:

    • If not in the group, edit is always redirected to the staging

    page edit: Approvers

    • Delete staging pages at approval: yes
    • Categorize approved pages with categories of staging copy on

    approval: yes

    • Force bounce of editing of approved pages to staging: yes
    • Category for staging pages: Staging
    • Category for approved pages: Approved
    • Category for pages out of sync: none
    • Unique page name prefix to indicate staging copy: *


    What happens during the staging process with this configuration?

    • For example a page named mypage. During the staging, 2 pages

    will be able to coexist, mypage = approved version, *mypage =
    stagging version

    • An author clicks edit on mypage, the edit page pannel opens the

    stagging page *mypage. When he saves *mypage, tikiwiki assigns

    • mypage to the stagging category. If an author clicks edit on
    • mypage, the edit page opens on *mypage
    • An approver approves *mypage. tikiwiki copies all the history of
    • mypage changes on top of mypage history and assigns the

    category approved to mypage. tikiwiki deletes *mypage

    Unfornately, I couldn't find Categories perms like tiki_p_view_categorized
    tiki_p_edit_categorized
    in Tiki6.0 admin panel or somewhere else.

    Waiting for some expert to show up...


    Posted by botiki

    When followed previous sample steps, created a staging page, find approve and reject buttons in admin login,but when hit the "approve" button, it shows following:
    Error:Either staging or approved page cannot be found.


    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties
    Yes, this is a known issue (that I stumbled upon recently) in Tiki 6. There appear to be several issues with staging/approval. 😑
    Posted by botiki
    Hi there, thank for sharing your experience with me. so have you ever tried previous version like Tiki5, did staging feature work well in Tiki5 or even older version?

    Posted by botiki
    So folks, does this mean that staging and approval DOES NOT work on Tiki6.0 or is there any clue to implement it? thanks

    Posted by gorillass

    When pages are already created, the staging process sort of works. A staged page is created and authorising it works, but checking the categories assigned to the page shows that it doesn't get assigned to the staging category, nor the approved category.

    When creating a new page, it does get assigned to the staging category automatically, but as soon as the an attempt to approve the page, the same error mentioned above pops up:

    "Either staging or approved page cannot be found"

    I've tried opening up the permissions and recreating the categories, but without any luck.


    Posted by botiki
    Is there anybody familiar with Staging and Approval on Tiki6.0? ergent to implement it.
    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    The bug reports about this problem probably mean that developers are aware of it. Not everything that needs to be fixed gets fixed quickly, unfortunately, because people just don't have enough time (most are volunteers and also have to make a living). If you can afford to pay for the fix, that would speed it up probably since it'd become a higher priority for a developer who is juggling paid work with volunteer bug fixes. But also unfortunately, the people most able to fix staging and approval are also the busiest with other projects, so even offering to sponsor the fix might not bring a quick result. There's a "Consultants" page at info.tiki.org if you want to go that route.

    About an earlier question, presumably staging and approval worked in an earlier release. It was developed for the support.mozilla.com Tiki installation, and has been in use there. But Tiki's code has been changing fast since that time and apparently staging and approval wasn't updated in step with it.

    -- Gary