Hi,
I mostly work alone but I wish a solution for better workflows in teams. It is really hard to share this documents for collaboration. This is for small groups essential. Many small clubs have a magazine for members or the typical yearbooks for students. In addition there are magazines for celebrations like weddings or graduation. Most of them are made with Microsoft Word or something similar - a word-processor. Desktop publishing is too hard for many people. You have to install a software that you need just for that one task. And then you see options you never heard of before. So it is easier to use an online editor like canva or lucidpress. But we want a full-fledged solution for professionals and easy to use for anyone at the same time!
So I considered that it would great if Scribus could protect the documents from editing or parts of it. Anyone can fill in their written texts and see if it fits or not the available space. If you give the articles to the editor-in-chief as text file you don't know anything until feedback. If it is needed you can edit the text but you can't edit the styles because the password protected lock.
After seeing it in Viva Designer I recommend a simple but powerful User role management based on Wordpress:
1. Administrator or editor-in-chief: all possible rights
2. Editor: Editors can create, edit and delete texts, images, sections and pages, moderate comments
3. Author/Contributor: Authors can create, edit and delete texts, images and pages as well as add comments. Somebody who can't publish or export except text and low resolution.
4. Subscriber or reader: Only reading/proofreading and if enabled adding notes/comments.
Rights that can be enabled or disabled per User group:
Document
Allow Save, Allow Save As, Allow Import, Edit Document Settings, Edit Preferences, Edit Colors, Edit Style Sheets, Create Master Pages, Duplicate Master Pages, Edit Master Pages, Delete Master Pages
Output
Allow Export (in General), Allow Export As PDF, Allow Export As EPS, Allow Export As Image, Allow Export As SVG, Allow Export As Text, Allow High Resolution Output
Layout & Content
Edit Objects (in General), Move Objects, Stretch Objects, Modify Objects, Create Objects, Delete Objects, Manage Pages, Manage Sections, Edit Text, Edit Pictures, Edit Tables
Toolbars & Palettes
Every Toolbar and Palette has to be locked/disabled and/or hidden if needed
Revision Management
Comparison and composition of the shared document with all their different revisions. Merging all revisions from several files. For example there are five editors to coordinate. Enable export for revisions. The whole document or just parts which can be edited and merged together again afterwards.
This is a heavy task so if you find it nice I recommend this a long-term feature like in version 2.x