Goal

After reading this article you'll:

  • understand what drafts are
  • be able to enable or disable news article drafts for players
  • be able to publish drafts for players 
  • understand how players can create drafts themselves

Summary


News article drafts allows players to create and manage drafts, so they can work on them, edit and decide when to publish them. Scenario designers can leave drafts pre-written for players so they can quickly modify them or players can create their own drafts (maybe anticipating different outcomes) and leave them ready to be published.


 Name
News article drafts
 Benefit
Let players create several news articles and leave them ready to be published in one click.  Drafts also allow time to review and create different versions to choose from.
 Features
  • Select where to publish and who to post as
  • Add rich media and text with format.
  • Manage drafts (search, duplicate, delete) in the drafts table

Enabling news article drafts

In the Scenario Editor, permissions allow certain players to post & edit news articles for certain media organisations.

Go to Personas and select your desired persona, who needs to be marked as organisation. Then, in the Permissions tab, add the positions you want to enable this capability for. When you assign this positions to certain players, they will be able to create their own drafts.

You can also mark tick the Website editing checkbox if you want players to be able to edit articles created by others.






Publishing drafts for players

In the Scenario editor, in the MEL/MIL view it is possible to publish an article as draft. This means it won’t display but will appear in the player’s list of draft articles. It allows pre-written templates to be created for the players, as would often happen in the workplace – for example for press releases.


1. In the Scenario tab, select MEL under View.

2. Click or create any website article (in article-based websites)

3. Turn the switch to "Publish as draft"
 
 4. When players log in and click to edit any article, they will access their drafts table

5. There, the draft will be ready for them to be edited or posted.
 


Publishing drafts by players


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In the Virtual Desktop, when players are assigned the position that has editing permissions, a green plus button appears, next to article titles on the Websites channel.
 
There, players access their drafts panel, where they can:
- create new drafts
- filter by organisations
- search content
- duplicate existing drafts
- delete drafts
 
When editing a draft, players can:

- decide on which page to publish (from the organisations that have this permission enabled)
- decide to post as specific personas or leave with "No author"
- choose title and subtitle
- write and format text for the draft
- add rich media

Once edited, they can decide to publish live or save as draft
 
When published live, articles no longer appear on the drafts panel, and they are seen live on the Website channel.

Published articles can be edited clicking the editing icon next to the article title.

Once edited they can be re-saved or posted as a new article. However, they cannot be saved as a draft again.