Publishing workflow

[aaronjudd]

From discussion started on https://github.com/reactioncommerce/reaction-core/pull/146

I've been thinking that it's probably time to consider more complex publishing / workflow rules. I think maybe "isVisible" could be refactored to a more flexible object (and probably preserve isVisible as a method):

Products

    active: "false" || boolean  # replace isVisible for creator
    publish: [ beginDate, endDate] # replaces isVisible for public

When a product is `active`, it's visible / not visible to it's creator.

When a product is published we add a start date, with an *optional *end date.

There could potentially be multiple date ranges (for example, to publish only on specific weekends)

When viewing a grid, we'll add some UI element to toggle the appearance / publication in grids of "active:false" products.

Shops

    workflowRoles:[
        products:
            create: [ {shopId,'createProduct'} ]
            publish: [ {shopId,['admin','owner'] } ]
            view:[ {shopId,'guest'} ]
    ]

Here's some use cases for this publishing structure:

* A user with appropriate permissions  `['admin','owner','createProduct']` can create a product.
* Shop A should be able to give Shop B access to unpublished view
* Shop A (uber shop) could have permission to publish products from Shop B (and perhaps Shop B cannot their own products)
* Shop B can publish products, but only to their shop (i.e.: not Shop A)
* Shop B users can view products from Shop A, but only when shop A allows viewing
* default permissions can be setup like in example definition, as the fallback in case workflowRoles isn't defined.

Possibly we should consider route/tags in publishing permissions as well, for instance, if a certain user has permissions to publish without review in just one category.

* workflowRoles could be specific to Tag

@spencern suggests:

Here's a few more suggestions for product visibility rules and flags
CatalogVisible: true: product is will show up in relevant catalog pages, category searches, etc
CatalogVisible: false: product will only be visible via direct link

I think that just not tagging something could work to exclude it from the catalog, but ideally (in the future perhaps) we will be able to create 'smart' catalogs that organize ever product from a given vendor, within a certain price range, etc. It's in those cases that having an include/exclude flag might be nice.

[aaronjudd]

Moving this to the 0.17 release - this is a more detailed discussion on the product publishing workflow that is partially implemented with new PDP updates. when we finish those for 0.17 we should review the items here and close/pluck into new issues as needed. See #415 and #151

[aaronjudd]

Very old discussion of publishing workflows, that should be reviewed and closed as new catalog workflows are defined.

[brent-hoover]

Closing to Review roadmap

[aaronjudd]

Feature request that requires more definition to meet our current issue guidelines.

[brent-hoover]

Issue moved to reactioncommerce/reaction-feature-requests #16 via ZenHub