Ektron CMS400.NET User Manual

Approve/Decline One Content Item
Approving/Declining Content
1. Click the Smart Desktop button (circled in red below).
2. Click Reports.
3. Click Approvals.
4. Click the content you want to approve or decline.
To select all displayed content, click Select All at the top of the
screen.
5. The content appears. You can view the content, summary,
metadata, etc.
A toolbar at the top of the screen lists tasks you can perform on
the content.
Button Name Result of Clicking
Publish Accept changes to the content and publish it to the site.
Note: If there is another approver in the content’s approval chain, this is
replaced by a SUBMIT button.
If you click Publish but the content item has an incomplete task assigned
to another user, the content cannot be published. Instead, the following
error message appears.
The user to whom the task is assigned must complete it before you can
publish the content.
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