Greetings all,

I've been tasked with quickly implementing a CMS to allow non-technical users to maintain a relatively simple corporate website. I've been doing some research about SilverStripe and have liked what I've seen, but am concerned I'd have to do too much development to meet my requirements.

The two main things I'm looking for are:

1) Constrained-field content entry
While the free-form HTML fields are nice, we have need in a number of sections where the writer should only be allowed to enter plaintext in certain fields. For example, press releases, where they might have a field for date, title and body. Upon publishing, the press release index would automatically be updated.

Is there pre-existing functionality for something like this within SS or an extension?

2) Fairly basic workflow
We have Writers, who should be able to modify various content areas and we have Editors, who review and publish.

I noticed the concept of roles in my research, but it wasn't clear to me how built out this functionality was. Ideally, there would be a notification system within SS allowing a writer put an edit within an Editors queue, but that would just be a bonus.

Any opinions or pointers greatly appreciated.

-MB