Improve pre/post-publish flow for Schedule, and Submit for Review #5343
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General Interface
Parts of the UI which don't fall neatly under other labels.
Needs Dev
Ready for, and needs developer efforts
[Priority] High
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[Status] In Progress
Tracking issues with work in progress
When you write a post, and click "Publish...", you enter the post-publish flow where you can verify last minute details before publishing your post. This is a valuable confirm step.
"Update" should not have this post-publish step, but "Schedule" should as it's essentially the same "Publish" mindset you're in, you're just publishing to the future. As such you should be allowed the same last-minute checkup:
— though as we add that step we should be sure to rename the label from "Schedule" to "Schedule..."
In addition to this, we should make improvements to how users with the
contributor
role publish. Right now they just get a "Submit for Review" button, with no confirmation step. They deserve this step also. Here's how that could look. First:Then:
This will be an additional enhancement to the work started in #5329, and will further address #4231. See also #4231 (comment).
Summary of button labels and flows:
Editors and admins:
Contributors:
The idea is that the flow is really: “Decide you are done -> Get into Publish Flow -> Submit for Review”
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