Hi, I've recently started to recreate one of my small websites from Drupal 7 to Backdrop as a test for future conversions. Rather than importing the content, I've opted to start from scratch to better explore the capabilities of Backdrop. So far, I'm quite pleased with everything I've seen, many new features compared to Drupal 7, but still everything feels familiar. Thanks to the team and everybody involved for the work done!
Now I'm at the point of implement a publishing workflow so "editors" can create/edit content that is not published, but as soon it's approved by an administrator, the editors can't edit the content any longer. In drupal 7 I achieved that by using Workflow module. I haven't found the module available in Backdrops and since I consider it almost a "mandatory" module for any website I was wondering if there is another way of achieving the same result in Backdrop that I'm missing.
Regards, and again, many thanks for Backdrop. After many years of disappointment with Drupal, I'm getting excited again with a CMS.
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You are asking this question at the right time.
Work has been done on the Content Moderation module for Backdrop CMS, but it's still not working fully. We would welcome help getting this module fully functional. My team may be able to help with it in the near future. There is no official release, but you can find the existing work on Github.
https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/content_moderation
In the meantime, we are testing a simplier module that might meet your needs. It's called Forward Revisions. There is no release yet, but there may be a release later this week. We just need more testing. If you are able, please try this module and let us know what you think.
https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/forward_revisions
The Forward Revisions module allows editors to create drafts of already published nodes and save them for review. This module does not have the more complicated workflows that are available in Content Moderation, but it's a step in that direction.