how to approve an upload before it goes live

[sofajoe]

Basically I (admin) want to be able  to approve an upload before it goes live. Can i get extra  privileges where if any other staff member puts something up it has  to be accepted by me before it happens.

I've had a good search of the forum and haven't found any one asking this and can't see it in the admin console - is it possible?

[calguy1000]

If you're using the uploads module you do it this way.

a) create two categories
    Category 1 - call it something like "submitted"
    do not make this category listable

    Category 2 - call it something like "approved"
    you can make this category listable

b) Put the upload tag on one of your pages
    {cms_module module=uploads mode=upload category="submitted"}

c) Put another upload tag on either the same or a different  page
    {cms_module module=uploads mode=summary category="approved"}

d) Turn on email notifications so that you are notified when a new file is uploaded to the "submitted" category.
 
e) When you want to approve an upload, just go to the uploads module, to the "submitted" category, edit the particular upload, and change it's category to "approved".
    this will move the file, and it will then be displayed on the page as approved.

Hope this all makes sense.

[sofajoe]

yes, seems to make sense. I'll give it a go. But it looks like this module is just for uploading docs?

i was thinking of users - a group with set permissions - to add/edit pages - but this grp wouldn't have permission to make these changes live. They'd have to save them & then the admin could OK them and make them live.

or would your suggestion work in this sense as well?

[calguy1000]

The uploads module was originally written to allow people to upload files to me.  It was then modded to allow people to download files.  It does not handle documents, or website content, it just works with files.

sorry