Posting State Change by Approval

Rights on Channel (Posting)	Current User's Rights on posting	Current State of the Posting (PostingState)	After Approval (PostingState)
Only Editor	Administrator, Editor, Template Designer, or Channel Manager	New, Saved, EditorDeclined or WaitingForEditorApproval	Approved, Published, or Expired
Editor and Moderator	Editor	New, Saved, EditorDeclined or WaitingForEditorApproval	Waiting for Moderator Approval
Editor and Moderator	Administrator, Template Designer, or Channel Manager	New, Saved, EditorDeclined or WaitingForEditorApproval	Approved, Published, or Expired
Editor and Moderator	Administrator, Moderator, Template Designer, or Channel Manager	ModeratorDeclined or WaitingForModeratorApproval	Approved, Published, or Expired
Only Moderator	Administrator, Moderator, Template Designer, or Channel Manager	New, Saved, ModeratorDeclined or WaitingForModeratorApproval	Approved, Published, or Expired
No Moderator or Editor	Administrator, Template Designer, or Channel Manager	New or Saved	Approved, Published, or Expired

Notes :

1. Posting object in MCMS API is actually a Combination of underlying Page object and Posting object. Properties such as StartDate, ExpiryDate, and IsImportant belong to underlying posting object, while Description and Name are properties of the underlying page object (Also placeholders and custom properties are bounded to page objects). When an editor approves a posting, they are actually approving the page the posting is based on. When a moderator subsequently approves the posting, they approve the posting itself.

2. Modification to posting object require Moderator Approval.

3. Only page object have revisions, not posting objects. So a modification to posting object if the posting is published will make the posting offline until it gets approved by a moderator.

4. A page object modification will require Editor Approval.

5. As page objects can have revisions when it gets modified, the live posting will be still there until the modified one gets proper approval.

This is a summary from MCMS 2002 SP1a SDK.