Use case

Suppose a public company has regulatory compliance, requires all earning reports to go through a review, and has a specific publishing date. This example assumes the Content Moderation, Workflows, and Scheduler modules are enabled. The following steps can be done to configure this use case:

1. Create an earnings report content type with any file fields configured to use the private filesystem from admin/structure/types/add
2. Configure the earnings report content type to use the scheduler by enabling the checkbox Enable scheduled publishing for content items under the Scheduling tab when configuring the content type.
3. Add a new regulatory workflow of type “content moderation” at admin/config/workflow/workflows with at least draft and published states and at least one transition from draft to publish.
4. Select the earnings report content type when configuring the regulatory workflow.
5. Create a role for the regulatory governing users.
6. Assign relevant...