Setup a CMS workflow in Liferay 5.2.1

Posted by eichelgartenweg on 9:29 AM with 3 comments
Sometimes there is a need to sperate/limit the cms permissions for some users.

These users can be an article editor or an article approver.

Create editor role:

1. Sign in as administrator (e.g. test@liferay.com/test)

2. Go to Control panel > Roles

3. Create a regular editor role

4. Click Action > Define permissions > Add Portlet Permission


5. Select Web Content

6. You will get a complete list of all avaiable permissions. Select the permissions you want to assign to the editor role.


Create approver role:

1. Sign in as administrator (e.g. test@liferay.com/test)

2. Go to Control panel > Roles

3. Create a regular editor role

4. Click Action > Define permissions > Add Portlet Permission

5. Select Web Content

6. You will get a complete list of all avaiable permissions. Select the permissions you want to assign to the editor role.

Assign members to roles

1. Sign in as administrator

2. Go to Control panel > Roles

3. Click Action > Assign member on the role you want to edit

4. Select the users and click "Update Associations" (->Avaiable)

Activate Versioning

1. Add to portal-ext.properties:



journal.article.force.increment.version=true

2. Restart Liferay/server

3. Test IT!

Mail settings

1. Edit portal-ext.properties


#
# Configure email notification settings.
#

#These adress should be a approver mail box

#If a article is created a mail will be send to this adress (from article creators address)

#If the article is approved a mail will be send from these address to the article creator)
journal.email.from.name=Web Content Workflow
journal.email.from.address=
journal.email.article.approval.denied.enabled=true
journal.email.article.approval.denied.subject=com/liferay/portlet/journal/dependencies/email_article_approval_denied_subject.tmpl
journal.email.article.approval.denied.body=com/liferay/portlet/journal/dependencies/email_article_approval_denied_body.tmpl
journal.email.article.approval.granted.enabled=true
journal.email.article.approval.granted.subject=com/liferay/portlet/journal/dependencies/email_article_approval_granted_subject.tmpl
journal.email.article.approval.granted.body=com/liferay/portlet/journal/dependencies/email_article_approval_granted_body.tmpl
journal.email.article.approval.requested.enabled=true
journal.email.article.approval.requested.subject=com/liferay/portlet/journal/dependencies/email_article_approval_requested_subject.tmpl
journal.email.article.approval.requested.body=com/liferay/portlet/journal/dependencies/email_article_approval_requested_body.tmpl
journal.email.article.review.enabled=true
journal.email.article.review.subject=com/liferay/portlet/journal/dependencies/email_article_review_subject.tmpl
journal.email.article.review.body=com/liferay/portlet/journal/dependencies/email_article_review_body.tmpl

2. Restart Liferay/server