The discussion revolves around creating a workflow for draft topics created by a specific user to require approval from an ‘Editor’ Group before becoming visible. Isambard is looking for a way to force all topics from a user to require approval or manually flag a topic for review.
Ondrej suggests using category settings to require approval for all topics in a specific category, and setting the ‘Editor’ Group as category moderators. However, Ondrej notes that manually flagging a topic for review is not an effective option.
Moin mentions that custom flag types will be available soon, allowing for the creation of a review flag.
Isambard considers using a special category and category moderators, but notes that this would require all posts to be in that category, and may require additional post-approve hooks or manual re-categorization.
I was trying to figure out a workflow where draft topics created by a specific user requires approval from someone in an ‘Editor’ Group before the topic becomes visible.
As all topics will come from a specific users, is there a way to force all topics from a user to require approval? Or is there a way to manually flag a topic to require approval? I though also about using the ‘flag’ system for this, which is one workaround but then I think only moderators will be able to review the topic.
Hi Isambard,
In category settings you can select that all topics go through approval
In the image above below ‘Moderation’ you can set a group name. In your case I think category moderators would work nicely. You can see what ‘powers’ category moderatos have in this topic here.
There is a manual way to put items in the review queue but this way seems ineffective as it makes you choose a flag option and just wanting to review a topic doesn’t fit the bill of any of the flagging options in my opinion.
As a side note… maybe the ‘Queue For review’ Button should always be clickable or else you might as well just flag the post normally its the same amount of clicks.
I think you can add custom flag types soon. Then you could create a review flag.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/27484
Ohh thats a pretty neat soon to be feature!
A special category plus category moderators was also one of my first thoughts.
This does limit that all posts have to go to a specific category. I guess I could add some kind of post-approve hook to then re-categorize it or task the reviewers with manually doing that as part of the review step.
