There are various use-cases when we need to display the contents of a workspace to the site users (content editors), without showing them the full workspace UI. Here are two examples:
- the node preview system: it could be re-implemented using the Workspaces API, by creating a temporary workspace when the user enters the "preview state" for a node;
- content moderation: as mentioned in
#3037136-49: Make Workspaces and Content Moderation work together →
and implemented in the
Workspace moderation →
contrib module, a temporary workspace could be used behind the scenes to emulate the default/pending/latest revision behavior of the entity API.
Add a boolean temporary base field to the workspace entity type, which provides the following behavior:
- they are hidden from the regular admin listing (maybe they can be displayed in a separate tab)
- they can not be "switched into" manually from the UI, they can only be (de)activated by the code that defined/created them
- they are automatically deleted after a fixed time period (configurable globally or per-workspace?). Maybe the temporary base field should be a "expires at" timestamp field instead?
Discuss all the possibilities, work on a patch, etc.
Possibly a new local task on the main workspace listing page.
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@amateescu: Great news! This was on my hot-list for long, but never found time.
From my mental notes:
> Add a boolean temporary base field to the workspace entity type
As "managed" workspace, it shloudl rather be a "Owner"/"Provider" base field, so modules can recognize their workspaces (which obeoletes the boolean field).
WDYT?