[support] New members and unpublished content.

[Bill Fitzgerald]

You can use the workflow and actions modules to display a message to 
users onscreen when they have created a piece of content that goes into 
the moderation queue.

Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
> I use a mini-module I found here: http://drupal.org/node/153462
>
> to allow most of my members to skip moderation and have all content posted immediately.
>
> the problem is that new users' content does go into moderation and they then get confused about not seeing it and recreate it all again. For example:
>
> 1. new user adds a comment to a forum post. There is a message on pressing Submit which says it's gone into moderation.
>
> 2. new user creates a video/photo page and attaches it to a OG group. They go to the group and see that their attached page isn't there, so they re-create it. 
>
> Is there a way of lessening this problem? What do some of you do about dealing with the user experience side of unpublished content. I have a big User Guide in which I mention all of this, but I still find my new users frantically looking for content they've just made and then remaking it when they can't track it down.
>
> Neil
>   


-- 

Bill Fitzgerald
http://funnymonkey.com
FunnyMonkey -- Tools for Teachers
ph. 503 897 7160