Thanks so much for the reply Marcus.

I think what I will try for now is just to add a “Save” button to the bottom of each workflow page. That way at a draft will be saved.

It would be great if a pop up dialog would come up if a user clicks on a new tab and has not saved their work on the current page.

Ideally I would like the post to save automatically as a draft each time a workflow button is clicked and I’ll continue to look into it.

One thing I have noticed is that if the user doesn’t save/publish the post before clicking another workflow tab then a new auto-draft of the post is entered into the database which can cause some bloat.

Cheers,
John.

+1

OK, I figured out what my problem was.

I didn’t realise that it was possible to set custom labels for a CPT registered with PikList so I was using a custom array like so:

function report_post_type($post_types) {
$labels = array(
‘name’ => (‘some-label’),
);

$post_types[‘report’] = array(
‘labels’ => $labels

Then I realized that you could set custom labels a-la this thread:

http://piklist.com/support/reply/reply-to-setting-labels-on-new-type/

So once I set the labels using the ‘labels’ array within the $post-types array then I could set custom post status’

Thanks Steve.  I am getting these errors in Chrome’s javascript debugging console:

[blocked] The page at https://www.MYSITE.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=book ran insecure content from http://www.MYSITE.com/wp-content/plugins/piklist/parts/js/pik-admin.js?ver=0.1.
[blocked] The page at https://www.MYSITE.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=book ran insecure content from http://www.MYSITE.com/wp-content/plugins/piklist/parts/js/pik.js?ver=0.1.

If I go into the class-piklist-admin.php file on line 232 and change the WP_PLUGIN_URL to a hardcoded URL with an HTTPS:// prefix that removes the errors. But, of course, this will get over written in an update.

Same on lines 242 and 243 of class-piklist-admin.php.

It looks like when PikList is enqueing scripts and styles is when the issue occurs.

Thanks Steve.  That makes sense.  However, no matter what I try I cannot get this to apply to more than the first status.  Which ever status I list first is the only one that is recognized.  Does the status have to be a custom status defined in the CPT parameters?

I am using WP 3.5.1 and PikList 0.7.1

I’m stumped.

Thanks.

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the response.  I’ll attempt to explain.

I am using the Adminimize plugin to control menus and other aspects of the admin UI for roles other than Admin.  I have a CPT registered as “report”.  For non-admins I have hidden this top level menu because I don’t want them to be able to get to the edit.php page for that CPT.

Via PikList I have created a sub-menu page for this CPT.  Because there is a submenu, the top level menu then has to be shown. It looks like Adminimize is rewriting the link on that top level but the link is not what I want.  Here are the two links:

Top Level: MYSITE/wp-admin/admin.php?page=royalty-report-list

Sub-menu: MYSITE/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=report&page=royalty-report-list

These two links are producing different query results.  I know that there are a lot of variables here and it’s difficult to see what’s happening if you can’t see the code.  What I would really like to do is just set the link on the top level menu so that it points to the correct URL.

Thanks again and let me know if you would like login creds and I can send them to you so you could look at it.

Never mind.  I just found the localized text explanation in the documentation:

http://piklist.com/user-guide/docs/fields/field-parameters/

Thanks!