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Content approval overview?

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Hi!

Our customer has just started to use content approval. An editor needs a publisher to approve the content to be published.

As it is now, the publisher needs to approve every changed property which demands a lot of clicking. Is there a way to get past that? To get an overview over all changes on a content and the approve everything by one click? Right now everything is just shown as notifications in the upper right corner.

This might be standard maybe in Optimizely CMS/Commerce but I just cannot find a good way to handle it.

Thanks!

/Kristoffer

#338166
May 15, 2025 14:26
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How do you create your content approvals? By code or in the gui?

#338171
May 15, 2025 20:25
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By GUI. The user get notifications that properties needs to be approved but it is all properties and we don't find somewhere to get at good overview.

#338173
May 16, 2025 6:52
Ted - May 16, 2025 7:39
I don't recognize that behavior, in what state is the content? Our common workflows involve approval once content is "Ready to publish", but that is for the content as a whole (one click). What does it look like with property-specific approval? 🤔
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That sounds a little strange. You shouldn't have to approve properties individually however I wonder whether the issue is that you have a page made up of multiple blocks and you need to approve each block separately? If so, there are a couple of approaches which may help. The first, and probably most comprehensive, would be to use projects. This allows you to make a number of changes across different content items then an approver can preview, approve and publish them all together which sounds like what you're trying to do.

Another approach would be to use inline blocks which would mean that inline block content would be stored on the page being reviewed and would be approved & published alongside the rest of the content. You'd still have your current issues with any shared blocks though and, additionally, it's arguably just as difficult to spot what's changed in an inline block as the version comparison tool will highlight that the content area has changed but won't highlight what the change is.

#338181
May 16, 2025 8:57
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Agree, I'm not an editor so my knowloedge is not very good at this. But I guess you might get a notification on what is changed and then you review it and approves it.

I'll let the customer show me what he is experiencing.

Thanks!

#338182
May 16, 2025 9:06
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