Applying Workflow on Content Pages
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Issue
- As an administrator, I would like to apply the workflow feature on content pages.
Environment
- Liferay DXP 7.1
- Liferay DXP 7.2
Resolution
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The feature of workflow is not applicable to content pages, as being a limitation of the product.
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The actual behavior may look like it is possible to use page versioning on content pages, although this option is indeed a known issue.
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The fact is, without page versioning it is not possible to apply the feature of workflow.
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As reported, the UI should not allow to create a page variation of a content Page. The reason behind is page variation was originally designed as a quite generic way to address a number of different needs for widget pages.
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This generic solution is very powerful but turned out being hard to use and difficult to make it work under all the different use cases.
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For content pages our developers decided to follow a different approach, where variations are supported for each specific use case.
In particular, there is support for variations for:
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Personalization: It is possible to create several personalization experiences for each content page, associating it to a page
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A/B Testing: it's possible to create variations of the page and perform an automatic test to check which one works better to achieve a given goal.
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Regarding content pages, these variations are implemented in a completely different way and it would not make sense to use them in combination with the page variations originally designed for widget pages.
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Actually, applying the feature of workflow for content pages (actually, all types of pages) is planned to be implemented as part of a new feature on our roadmap - in an upcoming DXP version.
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