This topic describes a typical articles layout-driven workflow from creation till publishing and archiving.

 

Page designer (4) creates a page layout and all required articles. Optionally, he/she creates tasks and assigns it to the users, or this is performed by the section head.

Writer (2a) open the article, created by Page Designer (4), writes the content, and then sends it to the editors.

Editor (3a) edits the article and optionally enriches it by adding a title, other multimedia elements etc, performs fact checking and spell checking, and picture cropping.

In some newspapers, editors (some or all) create also the Web & channels related content, by adding to the article the channel-related elements (webhead, webbody)and so on, previewing article for Web, and scheduling it for publishing, or publishing it directly on Web and creating variants for Web, through multi-crop. In other newsroom, this task is assigned to another role, named Web editor (3b).

In any case, the IIS server (D) sends the channel-related content to the Web server (E) that generates a Web page.

When done, the editor (3a) sends the article in the folder which is dedicated for the content ready.

Page designer (4) checks the article, crops and adjust pictures and formatting - if needed.

Page sub (4-5) checks the entire page, sends pages to press, in the PDF format, so they become a "newspaper".

The page, containing wire images enclosed in articles and other content, together with other pages in the edition, gets archived, and eventually processed by librarians (6) that enrich the content.

Sometimes later, a scheduled process on the database server, automatically creates a virtual edition of the newspaper (M), and makes it available to subscribers over Web.

The items involved on the Database server:

•Storage

•Searches

•Generating of thumbnails and previews

•Export of edition to the virtual newspaper

•Purging of old wire images

•Creating of picture variants

The items involved on the Web server:

•Web export with workflows through publishing destinations

•Web templates

•Web comments