Brightspot CMS User Guide

Moving assets through a workflow


If your site uses a workflow to publish its content, you must move your assets through the proper statuses to complete this workflow and get your asset published.

To move your asset to the next step in your site's workflow, click Workflow.

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Workflow button

This expands the workflow menu to allow you to make the necessary selections to move your asset to the next step in the process.

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Next step in workflow highlighted

For example in the image above, this site has a review step as its next step after creating an asset. Once you click Send to Review, editors who are subscribed to workflow notifications receive a message that the asset is ready for review. The editor reviews the asset and rejects it (where it comes back to you to be fixed), or passes it along to the next step.

The steps and processes for your site will vary, so it is important to work with your coworkers to understand any workflows your site has in place.

Note
If a user's role has Publish permissions, but not all workflow transition permissions, and an asset is in a status that they do not have access to, then the user will see the next step in the workflow as a read-only button as well as the Publish Override link.

This ensures that an asset is not inadvertently published too early without going through all of the steps of a workflow. It also gives users that have roles with the Publish permission the option to skip those next steps and use the Publish Override link to publish the asset immediately if needed.


Another place you will see custom statuses is on the search page.

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Custom status options in search field

When the status menu is expanded, you see the standard statuses of Published, Archived, and Draft but you also see several others. The other statuses you see are related to workflows that have been set up on that site. As assets proceed through a workflow, you can search on assets in any particular status.

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