In views the below field/filter is confusing. "Whether or not the content needs to be approved prior its publication" sounds to me like this filter will identify content that needs to be approved before it's published. Im talking about a node a user just clicked "Save" on. Like a non-interactive queue. When actually this filter/field only tells you what content type as a whole is being controlled by content_approval.
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Content: Need approbation
Whether or not the content need to approved prior its publication.
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What would be every beneficial to this module is a Views filter/field such as the following:
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Content: Awaiting approval
Whether or not the content is in the admin queue waiting to be approved.
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This would provide meaningful displays.
It would have to work without using the standard drupal "published/unpublished" function so that it won't conflict with other displayed results already using "pub/unpub". Which is the situation I'm running into. I have classified ads that, when expire, become "unpublished." And, for it to make sense to users i have re-written the output to say "expired." Now that I'm using content_approval...all of the content in the queue is being displayed in my user's lists as "expired" when it's not. Its awaiting admin content approval.
I'm currently attempting a work around by creating an attachment using the filters in the users list for classified ads. It's actually an idea that may end up looking cleaner.
Any thoughts...?
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System Lord commentedTo better illustrate my problem see attached image.
The node on bottom is an expired ad (the date shows how long its been expired). I'm using Views "Content: Published" to display "expired."
The node at the very top is an ad I just created and is in queue for approval. You see it also is forced to display "expired". I want the one on top to display "Awaiting approval"
NOTE: This is all ONE content type requiring content approval. I'm not using the "need approbation" filter in the image which is why you dont see all with "expired".