Hi Beth, I know there have been a couple of bugs related to draft editing and approvals since 2.3.5.3 (like this and this), but I think they have all been addressed as of 2.3.7.5. I just took a look at our development site, which is built from source as of a few days ago. and as Administrator I'm seeing all of the draft approval icons, between the "settings" and "edit" icons (when viewing the instance on the page). You are Administrator, not Content Administrator, right?

I did just notice that when you're in the editor view, the only options at the bottom are Update Draft (button) Compare Draft to Live (link) and Cancel (link). Did there used to be submit for approval/approve buttons or links there in the past? I can't remember if that's how it used to work.

Jamie

Hi Beth,

You are using the source code right? How did you  obtain it? using TortosieHG or downloading a .zip generated by codeplex? The later is known to result in some strange results.

When you deploy to your production site are you deploying your own build or the pre-compiled release packages I produce?

To be honest for those like you and Jamie who use the source code and have a staging environment it is much more helpful to me if you update your dev/staging environment to the latest code before I make a release, that way if you  find any problems in testing I can fix them right away and you can pull the latest and build again to verify the fix and this helps me avoid bugs in the final release. Fairly often I have to patch the release packages when bugs get reported after the release. I test as well as I can and always run the latest code on my sites to try and shake out any bugs before a release but its not like I have a team of QA people at my disposal so I rely on the community and it is much easier and faster to fix bugs when people are working against the latest code from the repository.

Best,

Joe

Hi Beth,

It would be extremely helpful if you could pull down all the changesets for the very latest code and update your working copy to the latest code, rebuild the solution. Then I know you have the exact same code as me and if you find any problems I'll fix them right away then you can pull/update and build again and we can be sure that workflow or anything else is working correctly for you before the new release. I plan to make the release next Wednesday so anything you can test between now and Tuesday would be really great help. I'm pretty sure the workflow stuff is working correctly now but if you could verify that on your end it would be ideal.

Thanks so much for your help!

Best,

Joe