[TYPO3-dev] Moving Workspace code into a separate system extension

[Martin Kutschker]

Ingo Renner schrieb:

> There're magic numbers all over the place. Those have to be consolidated 
> first. Next thing is that the current IDs for the stages are like follows:
> 
> -1: Rejected
> 0: Editing
> 1: Review
> 10: Publish
> 
> When implementing custom stages we need to turn 1 and 10 into negative 
> numbers first as custom stages would be represented by records and would 
> thus have positive numbers.

Not necessarily. Custom stages could get numbers starting from 100. This 
works if you add some additional field that defines the order of the 
stages. Extra information could also make some stages optional or you 
could have branches. That means for some reason you could go from one 
stage to different stages depending on a condition (page tree, user, 
user group, etc).

There have also been works in that area. At least sojme research. Maybe 
you want to contact the folks first (send me a PM for details).

> For the UI part:
> As the workspace module represents part of the page tree I wondered 
> whether it wouldn't be better to move it under the web module 
> (Web->Workspaces). It would then automatically have a page tree. Also 
> the tree already highlights pages that have been changed in a workspace. 
> With the page tree you could then also add a clickmenu entry called 
> "publish" or the like which could publish a whole (sub) branch.

You noticed yoursefl that a WS change may affect the list of available 
modules.

Masi