I am sorry, I am a bit confused on workflow functionality. Does the 'submit an approval request' function belong to the user with 'edit draft' permission or the user with approval permission? In my test case, the grey submit approval button only shows up in the pages after an user with approval permission. By right it should be the editor who submit the approval request to the approver, am I right?

Hi Joe,

    Thanks a lot for the prompt reply. I tried to change the page a lot to make sure it is different from

published content, but I still can't see the 'submit for approval' button when I login as an editor.

Here are what I did.

1. Login as admin, create an user 'editor1' and in the 'Role Membership' tab, I assign 'Authenticated Users'

and 'Content Authors' to the new user;

2. Go to page1 and in its Security tab of 'Feature Instance Setting' page, I set 'Role that can only edit content as draft' to 'Content Authors' only and 'Role that can edit content' to 'Administrators' only and 'Roles that can view this content' to 'All Users'

3. Login as editor1, go to page1 and edit its content and click 'Update Draft' button, after that I can't see my changes in the page view mode and I can't see the 'submit for approval' button.

4. Login as admin, I can see the 'submit for approval' button and it works fine and after that I also can approve the change successfully.

I am using 2.3.6.7 version, both MYSQL and MSSQL database installation has the same issue.

What did I do in a wrong way?

thanks.

Bruce

Hi Joe,

    Thanks for the reply.

Actually when I login as editor1, the user who only has 'edit as draft' permission, I have no permission to see the administration toolbar footer. When I login as administrator, I can see both submit button and 'work in progress' mode.  It seems the 'editor1' user has not enough permission? I checked its role list, it belongs to 'Authenticated Users' and 'Content Authors' roles.

Thanks.

Bruce

Hi Joe,

    I found the reason. I am sorry it seems I am confused with the security of page setting and security of module setting. Previously I always use security in module setting and didn't set anything in security of page setting. Just now when I create a new page, I found the security in page setting (the url is PageSettings.aspx),

and I set 'Content Authors' in its 'role can edit as draft only' list, and finally it works fine.

and I went back to the problematic page, I found what I did is about module setting (the url is ModuleSettings.aspx), which is totally wrong. And then I set it in page setting, it also works...

Thanks a lot.

Bruce