The rules modules allows site administrators to define conditionally executed actions based on occurring events (known as reactive or ECA rules). It's a replacement with more features for the trigger module in core and the successor of the Drupal 5 workflow-ng module.

Workbench provides overall improvements for managing content that Drupal does not provide out of the box. Workbench gives us three important solutions:

a unified and simplified user interface for users who ONLY have to work with content. This decreases training and support time.
the ability to control who has access to edit any content based on an organization's structure not the web site structure
a customizable editorial workflow that integrates with the access control feature described above or works independently on its own

Handles Views support for the Services module version 3.x and later.

Currently in a concept phase where we're discussing and planning how to best approach this challenge.

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