Case study – an online magazine with Joomla
An interesting scenario to explore when it comes to editorial features such as workflows is the one represented by an online magazine. Generally, an online magazine includes different roles such as the author, reviewers, editors, and more, and each of them has a specific responsibility in the publishing process.
The author is generally the person who inputs the article within the system; a reviewer acts in the second phase and checks the article that has been uploaded by the author, correcting mistakes and typos, and ensuring that the article and all the other related fields are correct (for example, the category, custom fields, and more). During these steps, the article is still unpublished and in draft mode. At the end of the flow, we have the editor who is responsible for approving the article, ensuring that it adheres to the editorial line of the magazine, that it has no typos, that is tied to the appropriate category, and that...
