Jentla gives content a flexible workflow path and without complicating a systematic process.

User Groups

Jentla adds two new sets of user types to Joomla - Contributor, Approver, Publisher and Moderator. These can either be System-wide users or restricted to a particular group of sites.

Content States

Underlying the approval workflow is a simple set of content states. As well as versioning content, Jentla defines 6 content states - Draft, Submitted, Approved, Rejected, Old. This allows a contributor to save a draft to be re-edited prior to being submitted. And also enables retentin of all versions of the content simultaneously, allowing editing and resubmission of any version.

Combined with Jentla's ability to easily manage multiple sites, this simple approach becomes surprisingly flexible:

At its simplest, a single user or group of users can publish content directly to sites and positions they have been given permissions to publish to.

Typically, a contributor will create a element of content, suggesting which sites and positions it should be published to, then editing their draft (or any other version of the content) before submitting it for approval to an approver or publisher. They can also suggest which approver or publisher should be notified. The resulting email contains the content and a link to either reject or approve the article.

Before it is approved its content, destination or metadata can be modified. Once approved it is published and will be shown on the destination sites in the appropriate places from its commencement date until its end date, unless it is retracted beforehand.

Multiple staging environments can be linked in series allowing this or any sequence to update a staging environment site, rather than the final destination site. From there new approvers and publishers with permissions to other sites or sections can be alerted and the same content published to further staging environments, or to the production environment.

Selectable Approval emails

Approval submissions and rejections trigger emails to approvers and contributors respectively. Approvers can be associated with sites, with the contributors also having the option to select the approver to be notified.

Central Editorial Control

With this editorial control and simple content creation process, an organisation can gather content directly from technically unskilled sources, both from within the organisation and externally.

Central Comment Moderation

High volume User Generated Content such as comments are handled separately to allow moderation to be as efficient as possible.

Customizable Alerts for hits on "Hot Docs"

Statistics gathered on the sites are regularly interrogated to provide alerts for content that is being frequently hit. Thresholds are set for daily, weekly and total hits for all sites and per site. This ensures popular content is identified, and can be quickly propagated to other sites and categories.