This article covers how editors benefit from the FORGE capabilities of creating and managing content.
Topics covered here:
Editor's responsibilities
Staff editors are responsible for writing, editing, and publishing content.
Staff editors typically:
- Complete the content editorial workflow
- Define strategies to promote content once published
- Define relations among different pieces of content
- Translate content
- Manage live posts
The FORGE apps you'll likely use daily are:
- FORGE Back Office: The place where content is crafted and published
- LIVE BLOGGING: The place where live blog content is written and delivered
FORGE Back Office
FORGE Back Office is the content manager, the home to all of your editorial work.
The different types of content you manage are broken down into what we call entities. Entities, including text, photos, and videos, give structure to the content.
Editorial workflow
FORGE Back Office has distinct workflows for editorial entities: not published and published.
Once the entity ends up in the Published status, it goes through the Published workflow. E.g., a newly created story is sent for approval (Waiting for approval status) and the reviewer decides to publish it (Published status); from the publishing moment onward, any change to the story goes through the Published entity workflow.
Once the reviewed entity ends up in the Published status, it goes again through the Published workflow since it starts with the 'Published' status. E.g., a published story gets a review and it's sent for approval (Waiting for approval status); the reviewer decides to publish it (Published status) and from the publishing moment onward, any change to the story goes again through the Published entity workflow.
Status legend
- Not published: The entity is not visible in the front end
- Published: The entity is visible in the front end
- Archived: The entity is stored and not visible in the front-end. Restore entities to remove them from the archive state.
- Reviewed: An editor modified a published entity. The entity is visible in the front end in its latest published version. The updates done by the editor still need to be published on the front end.
- Waiting for approval: An editor submitted the entity for publication approval
- Rejected: The approver rejected the entity
Right-to-Left (RTL) support
Wherever an entity includes text, the selection of an RTL language automatically switches the entity editor into the RTL writing mode.
For example, in the screenshot below, title, headline, and text editor switch into the RTL writing mode due to the Arabic language selection:
FORGE LIVE BLOGGING
Fans want to dive into thorough, second-by-second storytelling that includes text, imagery, audio, and video, all in the same space. That's where FORGE LIVE BLOGGING comes in — it lets you engage with final users directly, through which editors have the power to easily manage, produce, and moderate content.
Visit Editing live blog posts page for more information.