Distributed content publishing

A large government website (or any large website, for that matter) must allow individual departments to generate and publish their own content. Moreover, many organizations require an explicit content creation workflow, where certain employees can only author draft content, while higher ranking individuals can promote drafts to a published stage. Oftentimes it is also necessary to schedule the publication time of content for a later date.

Drupal's user roles, coupled with the Workflow module, allow for fine grained control over who can publish what and when. The following manual pages detail and explain the necessary setup.

In this manual we will designate the department in question with a generic placeholder Dept, and you will substitute in any appropriate department name. Everything you create for this department will use the same identifier to make it easy to keep related items together. Once your site spans a dozen departments or more, you will be glad that you stuck with a rigid naming convention.