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

[Ingo Renner]

Benjamin Mack wrote:

Hi Benni,

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> If the rest of the core team thinks it's a good idea and if you can do 
> it without touching critical parts in terms of security and how 
> workspaces work (that means, if you touch only UI stuff), then I'm fine 
> with this.
> 
> - kasper
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> Is that what you had in mind as well, Ingo?

part of it.


A major new feature would be to have custom stages (and custom order of 
stages). Unfortunately there are some obstacles:

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.


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.


makes sense?
Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2