New Topic in Staff is Shared Draft but Missing "Publish" Button

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In a Support discussion titled “New Topic in Staff is Shared Draft but Missing ‘Publish’ Button” tagged shared-drafts, hellekin reports that topics created in the #staff category display a “shared draft” banner but lack the “Publish” button — a behavior noted by BlackKnob to occur by default in #staff. hellekin suspects a bug in v2.4.0.beta4. codinghorror asks tshenry to reproduce the issue. tshenry clarifies that the “Publish Shared Draft” button only appears after changing the destination category — since shared drafts default to the category they’re created in, and publishing requires selecting a different one. hellekin humorously notes the topic should have auto-closed four years ago.

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Continuing the discussion from Shared Drafts: Allow staff to collaborate on posts before publishing:

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The above screenshot shows a “shared draft” banner that appears above a topic normally created in #staff. It is missing the publish button! Also, as @BlackKnob noted in the original topic:

Would this be related? AFAIK, all new topics in #staff now show this banner but not the publish button. Smells like a bug.

Version: v2.4.0.beta4 +5

Edit: I tried creating a new “Shared Draft” in #staff and it shows the same issue.

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Can we repro this @tshenry?

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Did you try changing the Destination Category?

When a shared draft category has been established, all new topics within that category are considered shared drafts. The destination category defaults to the category in which the topic was created. The “Publish Shared Draft” button does not display until you choose a category other than where it was created.

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This topic should have closed automatically four years ago!