Until publication:Support for “Confidential Messages” in the Offline Project

Content, such as news articles, which must remain visible only to certain editors until publication, even in the offline project, can now be easily created in the editor.

KW 47 / 2023

Alkacon Software

Occasionally, certain content, such as news articles, may only be visible to specific editors until it is published in the offline project, but should be visible to everyone after publication. With version 23-12, such content can now be easily created in the editor. Previously, this was only possible with considerable effort by manually setting permissions.

Mark a message as “confidential”

Content for which a validity period is specified can be marked as confidential. Setting a Valid from and Valid to date is mandatory for this.

Note: This function is only available to editors who are members of a group specified by the administration for managing confidential messages. This group is referred to below as the “trusted group.”

Messages marked as confidential that are outside the validity period can only be viewed or edited by members of the trusted group. This applies in the page editor and in the explorer view, as well as in the online project after the content has been published.

Marking as confidential is done by editing the content in the form-based editor in the “Availability” tab. Confidentiality can be activated or deactivated in the “Validity period” section by checking the “Confidential” box.

Editors who are not members of the trusted group will not see the “Confidential” setting in the form-based editor.

Note: Images or PDF documents linked in the message are not automatically marked as “confidential.” This means that they can be accessed directly in the browser by manually entering the URL after publication, for example. The documentation contains a description of how such files can be configured manually if they are to behave in the same way as confidential messages.

Documentation