Give editors better info about drafts/provisional drafts

[wsydney76]

While enhancements in 3.7 are very much appreciated, there are still a few wishes, which may be plugin territory.

Just finished a custom plugin as a proof of concept https://github.com/wsydney76/work , which targets the most important ones. We are not able to develop and maintain a real plugin that fits all needs, so just want to share some requests and how it could be solved.

Compare drafts with current version

The blue markers are nice, but editors wanted to see the real content that has changed. Best idea we came up with is using the new slideouts:

Let me see my open provional drafts

Open edits are persisted when you leave the entry, but there is no way to find them again, unless you track them manually.

So added a dashboard widget

and an element index column

Let priviledged users see/takeover other user's provisional drafts

Depending on how your team is set up, it is not always great to keep provisional drafts 'private'. For example when entering content for a film festival, you have to create/update hundreds of entries in a short time, which is often done with the help of a bunch of semi-motivated assistants/interns that come and go, often leaving their work in an undefined state. Also people can get ill or are forced to leave suddenly for whatever reason. So there is a need to see what they have done, and even move a provisional draft to your own account (if you don't have your own).

Permissions

Improve visibility of existing drafts

When you open a current version, existing drafts are only visible (well, hidden) in the dropdown. so there is a need to make them more visible: