Show unpublished page to logged out users

[Torsten Baldes]

Is it somehow possible to show an unpublished page to users, which are not logged in?

My editors would love to have a way to preview a page (e.g. sending a secret/encrypted link) to their colleagues before it goes published. So they can view it without having an account or logging in.

I guess we would have to somehow hook in the viewable function (PagePermissions.module) to get this done. But i have no idea how to this.

Thanks!

[cstevensjr]

You can make the page Hidden and put it somewhere in your structure that can't be easily guessed. From the outside, a page has to be published to be seen.

Then you can give out this URL to whomever needs to see it.

An Example:  www.yourwebsite.com/cteded23xt4/review/preview-page-for-review/

[Torsten Baldes]

thanks for your reply!

this is the way we do it right now.

but as we grow and produce more and more pages, this gets slowly a mess with moving the pages back and forth in the right place and other editors finding them.

so we thought, there must be a better way to do this.

[cstevensjr]

It sounds more that your process needs refining.

I copy my unpublished pages that need review to a temporary url (as listed) and give that URL to whomever needs it.  Once finished with that page, I simply trash it.  The original page then gets edited or published.  The original content never gets moved.  It's just an affordable process to allow a review by outside interests.  

I use a project management system (PW based system) for any internal or client review.

[Ivan Gretsky]

Wow! PM on PW? That sounds really interesting. Could you tell a bit more about it? Maybe in another topic...

[Martijn Geerts]

What you could do (without making a mess)

Make a hidden page in you site tree as suggested, but the difference: give it a logical name like 'preview'.

This 'preview' page should have it's own template, call it preview or something and enable url segments.

On pages that you want to be previewed ad a FieldtypeTextUnique field, call it 'preview_code' or whatever you like.

Now on the hidden preview page something like this:

<?php

if (count($input->urlSegments) !== 1) {
    throw new Wire404Exception();
}

// get your page to preview
$preview = $pages->get("preview_code=" . $input->urlSegment1);

if (!$preview->id) {
    throw new Wire404Exception();
} else {
    echo $preview->render();
}

ps, not tested

Now you're able to give someone an URL like:

www.domain.ext/preview/vxrj9w765omxhg87g975ghu/

[Torsten Baldes]

Thanks Martijn!

This seems like a good way to do it. Will try that in the next days.

[cstevensjr]

Wow! PM on PW? That sounds really interesting. Could you tell a bit more about it? Maybe in another topic...

@Ivan Gretsky, I will.  It will probably be a few months before that happens.  I currently have a second generation prototype working with a few of my clients now.  PW is proving to be a great platform for doing that type of thing.

[adrian]

Is it somehow possible to show an unpublished page to users, which are not logged in?

I haven't used it, but there is also this module that might suit your needs:

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/process-page-draft/