The general Publish flow
The Publish flow in Naviga in Naviga Writer can be configured o fit the workflow in your media house. The authoring sets off in a draft state and can then transition to a nextState with actions under certain preconditions.
Explanation in common terms
The publish flow generally sets off with a draft version of an article. After that the author adds content and saves the article and it is still in a draft state.
The article is unpublished and exists in the content repository with a draft-state. When the article is ready the author push the publish button and it enters the published state.
However it can also be so that the editor wants to wait with this article and decides to schedule the publishing instead. In that scenario the article is not published at first, but later when the time that is set occurs.
This is a common very basic publish workflow described in common words.
In configuration terms the same publish flow can be described in more technical terms.
The State Draft will enter the State Published. To do this it will make a transition that must meet the preconditions equal to unpublished.
The other scenario can be described as:
The State Draft will enter the State for scheduled publication, which is called Withhold in the configuration. To do this transition it must meet the precondition that it is not published. When it enters the Withhold status an action will set in. That Action requires that the author has set a schedule time to make the status transition from Draft to Withhold.