[soved]Request Approval Button on FC 1.5.6 RC9 (r1514)

I have fixed manual request approval and:

1. add use of the "pending approval" notification email receivers for the manual approval
2. for j1.5 with FLEXIaccess, i have added FLEXIaccess user groups in notification configuration
3. Added 2 new global parameters to define Forced state for new content items for non-publishers
a. "Pending Approval : Unpublished" = automatic immediate notification to approve new items
b. "Draft : Unpublished" = manual Approval Request via button that set state to "Pending Approval" and sends the notification emails
-- Frontend / Backend configuration for these can be different
4. Approval button for frontend too, the user is notified that his/her new item is in draft state and when done he can click to request approve of it.

I am still testing these

This sounds really great.

Is there a nightly build with which I can test it too?
Best Regards

I just talked to our editor. She doesn't want to be notified via mail since she makes use of the info-module on the right side of the flexicontent dashboard (see image). So most important feature for us would be that the notification about new articles would show up there. Will this be possible?
Best Regards
Markus

Yes but new article with what kind of criteria?:

a. their state ???
b. their creation time to be in last x days ???submitte

Err... their state (if I understand you right). In fact just the way it used to be before the request approval button was broken. That is the author creates an article and may save it for further editing later. Whenever the article is completed the author saves it and requests approval. That puts the article into the state "pending waiting for publication approval" which is then shown in the dashboard so my editor sees it and can review it before she publishes it. Also an author may not change an article that is already published - we solved this with setting the automatic approval option to no in the configuration.
Best Regards

In r1524

# Workflow / manual approval improvements,
(a) added selection for automatic or manual approval requests (global configuration),
(b) added manual approvals to frontend,
c) added support for FLEXIaccess groups (J1.5) as email targets for notification,
(d) change manual approval to use the customizable email targets for pending approval state,
(e) other minor improvements/fixes

can you test from SVN ?