Greetings, all!
I have been tasked with setting up a section of my organization's intranet. I've been given a single SP2013 site collection to work with, and within that site collection I need to create a.) a working area for content authors to enter and review content for a "staging" version of our intranet section, b.) a User Acceptance (UA) version of the intranet section where content can be "promoted" once reviewed and approved in Staging, and c.) a Production version of the intranet section where content can be promoted once reviewed and approved in UA.
Approaches Under Consideration:
- Cross-Site Publishing - Doesn't seem appropriate, as I only have the one site collection to work with.
- Variations (Setting up three "locale" variations that are all en-us, with labels for staging/ua/prod) - Doesn't seem appropriate, as a.) content promotion to all locales is contingent on the approval state in the source variation, and b.) everything I'm reading says that variations in SP2013 should *only* be used for multilingual support.
- Forego publishing & workflow approaches, and manually "promote" the staging site forward via "Save Site as Template" functionality - Doesn't seem appropriate, as it would lock me into a monolithic release process for even the smallest change. (Although, they do pay me by the hour, so...)
- Create Custom Workflows - This seems like the most appropriate way to go about it.
Am I missing something? Are there other out--of-the-box, vanilla options I could use to achieve the assigned goal that I'm missing here? Any advice/guidance the community can offer (even if it's "hey, bozo, this has already been asked & answered over...") will be much appreciated.
Thanks!
