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Varbase Workflow Base

A recipe to manage advanced editorial and publishing workflow with content moderation. Build on top of the basic Workflow integration in Drupal CMS.

Provides content moderation workflows, scheduled publishing, revision management, content locking, and workflow notifications. Enables structured content publishing processes for editorial teams.

This recipe provides a complete workflow setup including:

• Content moderation editorial workflow
• Scheduler integration for scheduled content publishing
• Admin audit trail for workflow activity logging

Features

Workflows

Editorial Workflow

A comprehensive workflow with multiple states:

• Draft: Initial content creation state
• In Review: Content submitted for review
• Published: Content is live and visible to the public
• Archived/Unpublished: Content is archived or unpublished

Available transitions:

• Create new draft
• Send to review
• Publish
• Archive/Unpublish
• Restore from archive

Content Moderation

• Scheduler Integration: Schedule content publishing and unpublishing
• Content Moderation Notifications: Get notified about workflow state changes
• Admin Audit Trail: Track all workflow-related activities

Permissions

The recipe configures workflow permissions for the following roles:

• Editor: Full access to editorial workflow transitions, unpublished content viewing, and scheduling
• Content Editor: Full access to editorial workflow transitions, unpublished content viewing, and scheduling
• Site Admin: Full access to editorial workflow transitions, unpublished content viewing, and scheduling
• SEO Admin: Full access to editorial workflow transitions, unpublished content viewing, and scheduling

Installation

Add the recipe using composer:

composer require drupal/varbase_workflow_base:~1.0.0

Change directory to /web or /docroot

Run the Drupal recipe bash script:

bash core/scripts/drupal recipe recipes/contrib/varbase_workflow_base

or

Run the Drush recipe command:

drush recipe recipes/contrib/varbase_workflow_base