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Currently my editors do not know when new content submitted by a user without publishing permissions is ready to be reviewed. The status of "disabled" could refer to an in-progress draft or a completed draft ready to be reviewed by an editor. There is no way the user can flag their article as ready and for this to be easily exposed to the editors in the admin panel.
How could this be addressed.
One solution that comes to mind is to add your own custom status field (i.e. 'reviewStatus') as a drop-down menu (or checkbox perhaps if only one status). Then add this field as a column in your list view via a small plugin, using the new modifyEntryTableAttributes hook.
public function modifyEntryTableAttributes(&$attributes, $source)
{
if ($source == 'section:3')
{
{# remove a column if desired #}
//unset($attributes['expiryDate']);
{# add a column #}
$attributes['reviewStatus'] = Craft::t('Review Status');
}
}
Might also check out getEntryTableAttributeHtml hook (to customize the HTML display of that column), and modifyEntrySortableAttributes hook (to add this field to the sort options).
To change the column display order you would need to unset all of the native attributes and reset them in the desired order (see this answer for example).
Douglas has posted a great suggestion about creating an additional custom field for "Status". But I think it's also worth mentioning Josh Crawford's great free plugin called Workflow which takes Craft's built-in permissions a step further with:
Some screenshots:
