[consulting] preview of a home page

[Mariano Barcia]

Hello there all. Thanks for the responses and for sharing your thoughts.

It is always hard to concilliate interests of different persons involved in
any given activity. The way open source communities have been evolving is
impressive, but always hard to deal with due to the complex nature of every
single little issue, like in this case.

As this need raised enough interest (building-block modules already
developed, and customers wanting this feature), can anyone suggest a better
place to keep discussing this need/feature? A forum or a page at drupal.org?

Thanks again, and cheers to all.
--mariano

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-----Original Message-----
From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Earl Miles
Sent: Viernes, 05 de Enero de 2007 02:10 p.m.
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Subject: Re: [consulting] preview of a home page

Mariano Barcia wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Isn´t there a way in Drupal to preview the home page, without actually
> publishing the nodes in the home page?
> 
> I have been googling for this possibility, and also searching within
> drupal.org, but no luck yet. In large sites with many editors, there must
be
> a way to preview how the home page will look like and I can't find a
single
> mention to this issue. Other CMSs like OpenCMS have the concept of
> Online/Offline environments, or "sandbox" but that´s more developers
> terminology I guess.
> 
> Or does the site admin actually preview the home page (sees the
unpublished
> nodes)?

I believe you could accomplish this kind of thing (based on some other 
discussion) by using the basic workflow idea for article publishing, but add
an 
addition workflow state, perhaps 'pre-publishing', and a set of Views that
only 
editors can see that would show you both published and pre-published
articles 
simultaneously.

See the publishing module http://drupal.org/project/publishing which leads
to 
an article that talks about this.

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