Publish book components (wireframes)
Hi @lathrops1
As shown in the walk-through, here are the wireframes for publishing book components
Publishing a book component individually
On the preview tab, after the Editor has selected the 'Ready to publish' button, the 'Publish' button is active.
- Selecting the 'Publish' button opens this modal. The Editor will see this modal the first time any book component is published, and when all subsequent versions are publish if the book has the setting "Support multiple published versions" turned OFF.
- The placeholder text [book component title] will show the actual title.
- The Editor will see this modal when all subsequent versions are published if the book has the setting "Support multiple published versions" turned ON.
- The Editor chooses whether to publish:
- as an replacement of the current published version
- as a new published version
- The V1 release will not include this modal since we are only publishing for the first time.
Publishing book components in bulk
- On the book manager page, after the Editor has selected the 'Ready to publish' button, the 'Publish' button is active.
- The Editor selects the book components that she wants to publish. To avoid human error the 'Publish' button will become inactive if the Editor selects any components that don't have the status 'Ready to publish'. The Editor would also be able to filter by Status 'Ready to publish' and then select all.
- Selecting the 'Publish' button opens this modal. Shown here is the view of the modal if the book has the setting "Support multiple published versions" turned ON.
- The Editor chooses "replacement" or "new published version" for each book component. To speed up this task the Editor can also select an option from any one of the dropdowns, and then check the 'Apply selection to all' box.
- As discussed, we could choose a default option for the dropdown box -- but we won't know which option is the most common use case until after user testing.
- If this is the first time the components are being published (i.e. V1), the dropdown will be set to "new published version" and will not be editable.
- If the book has the setting "Support multiple published versions" turned OFF, the 'Publish as' column won't appear.
- If for some reason the Editor decides that she doesn't want to publish one or more of the selected components, she can untick the relevant components. The avoids the Editor having to close the modal and reselect the book components.
It would be useful to provide the user with some explainer text on the difference between publishing as "replacement" or "new published version". Can you please provide this explanation as you would like it displayed?