Ondro, As you know, we will be expanding our workflow (to n-stages) after we have a PHP parser (your point about articicles with Published status in yet unpublished issues could be addressed before, Mugur/Paul, please correct me if I am wrong). As of 2.5, users will be able to create (status: New) and submit (status: Submitted) articles without having to place them in a publication/issue/section. The purpose of this is to shorten the training time and input for stringers. So what we need right at this moment is to come up with is a plain-English, non-geeky name for articles that are not yet placed in the standard Campsite structure. "Unassigned" is not good, because in the future, that term could be used for assigning articles to editors or journalists (in our n-stage workflow). "Unplaced" sounds weird"Uncategorized" is somewhat misleading (because you are categorizing content with Topics, for example).So let's hear some ideas.Best,SavaOndra Koutek <kouteko@tol.org>02/24/2006 08:24 PMPlease respond to campsite-dev To: campsite-dev@campware.org cc: bcc: Subject: Re: [campsite-dev] A good name for 'unplaced' articles In my opinion this should be related to workflow.therefore the best would be to introduce us new workflow and changesprior naming them.In my eyes the most important status of the article is:1) New (editor never saw it)2) Submited (editor saw it and finished its corrections)3) Used (article is in the publication somewhere, but not published)4) Published (article is on site)What I find very confusing at this moment is "published" on articles andissues, where these two states should be more dynamic. For example thearticle is published, but the issue not, In this case I would sayArticle is used and it will change to published only if the issue ispublished.I would not use the word assigned for an article, as it does notdescribe the situation.And we come to a point if the articles can be used several times. Inthat case you might wish to use different words.OndraOn Fri, 2006-02-24 at 13:43 -0500, Paul Baranowski wrote:> We are looking for a good term to describe articles that have not yet> been placed into a publication/issue/section.  Is there a standard term> for such a thing?  Words that come to mind:>> unplaced> uncategorized> unassigned> without location> pending layout>

At 19:43 24.02.2006, Paul Baranowski wrote:
>We are looking for a good term to describe articles that have not yet
>been placed into a publication/issue/section. Is there a standard term
>for such a thing? Words that come to mind:

orphaned
in progress
scratchpad
sketch
floating
free

>unplaced
>uncategorized
>unassigned
>without location
>pending layout


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Paul, Sava, all,

>>We are looking for a good term to describe articles that have not yet
>>been placed into a publication/issue/section. Is there a standard term
>>for such a thing? Words that come to mind:

I'm not a native English speaker, but "draft" could also be a possible
description for an unassigned article.

Best regards,

Armando

Ondra Koutek wrote:

> Not in fact, draft means something not finished. IMHO articles should be
> finished, corrected and than placed to the structure and published.

Maybe we are talking about different workflows, but let me elaborate my
proposal. An article not placed into the structure will not be
accessible, at least in principle, to the person responsible for each
section. As this person will probably make changes, you can't consider
an unplaced article 'finished'.

So a possible workflow would be:

Draft -> First version of an article (location: limbo)
New -> The article reaches its section (location: section)
Submitted -> The section editor deems it suitable for publication
(location: issue)
Published -> The issue editor publishes it (location: publication)

Best regards,

Armando