[5.2] Search for content checked out by an author

[brianteeman]

Pull Request for Issue #43957 .

Summary of Changes

Adds the ability to search for all content that is checked out by a user

Testing Instructions

Check out some articles

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

There is no way to filter or search the list of articles by their checked out status

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Using the search input you can now search for content checkout out by a specified author (using their username or real name) by entering CHECKEDOUT: author. Obviously replacing author with their real name or username

If accepted documentation will be created

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[ghost]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 555b375

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[richard67]

@brianteeman Now after the last change I think you should change the description of the expected result in the testing instructions.

Currently it says:

Using the search input you can now search for content created by a specified author

I think it should be:

Using the search input you can now search for content checked out by a specified user

[brianteeman]

@richard67 done

[richard67]

@fgsw Could you test again? Thanks in advance.

[crommie]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 0fc5cf1

Works as described

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[bascherz]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 0fc5cf1

Works as expected on a freshly-created 5.2.0-beta1 site.

Just a comment: Although this is a much-needed feature, having the ability to list checked-out articles by ALL users would also be super useful for sites that have a number of authors. Perhaps something like "checkedout:*" or just "checkedout".

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[richard67]

RTC

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[brianteeman]

@maintainers an alternative to this approach would be to add a filter for checked out and then it could be additionally combined with the existing author filter.

[Hackwar]

Thank you for your contribution @brianteeman!

[brianteeman]

thanks