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Publishing Workflow

To implement the publishing workflow for our blog, we will use Enum types for the different article states and later add access restriction with the authorization functionality of Slicknode.

Instructions

Our blog articles can have 3 different states: Draft, Published, and Archived. Since they don't change, we can use an enum type for this.

Add the following to the schema file of the blog module.

modules/blog/schema.graphql:

enum Blog_ArticleStatus {
  # Article is in draft mode, not published
  DRAFT

  # Article is published
  PUBLISHED

  # Article is archived and not published anymore
  ARCHIVED
}

type Blog_Article implements Node & TimeStampedInterface {
  # ... other fields
  status: Blog_ArticleStatus
}

Deploy the changes and fix any potential errors:

slicknode deploy

Now go to the console (slicknode console) and assign a status to each article in your database.

You can now query the status of each article via the GraphQL API. Open the playground (slicknode playground) and test your new field:

{
  Blog_listArticle {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        title
        status
      }
    }
  }
}