Guides / Being a manager
The approval queue — nothing goes live until somebody says so
A manager can write freely and can publish nothing. Everything you create arrives in Rodrigo’s queue first. That is not distrust — it is the reason the job can be handed to a friend at all.
What waits, and where
Two kinds of thing land in the queue. A brand-new item waits as a draft nobody else can see. A change to something already live waits as a proposal parked beside the live version, which carries on showing the old wording until the change is approved.
Rodrigo sees both on the Waiting tab of his own workspace, with a count on the tab so a queue cannot quietly build up.
What approving does
- A new noticeboard advert is published and appears on the board.
- An edit has the parked version copied over the live one.
- Sending something back returns it to you with a note, which shows in your list as “Sent back:” followed by his reason. Fix it and send it again.
Auctions: approving publishes the page, it does not start the bidding
This is the one thing worth reading twice, because it surprises people. When Rodrigo approves an auction lot you have prepared, the lot’s page is published — but the auction itself stays at pending and takes no bids. Nothing has opened.
Starting an auction is a separate, deliberate act that only Rodrigo can perform. A manager cannot set a lot running, and cannot touch the seller, the winner, the high bid or the bid count either. Opening bidding on something is exactly the authority the queue exists to keep with the owner, so approval and start were built as two different decisions on purpose.
So if your lot appears and no bids arrive, nothing has gone wrong. It is waiting to be started.