Sharepoint Content Approval message

Question

I Have Content Approval turned on for a list. When Users create Items they get the message 'Items on this list require content approval. Your submission will not appear in public views until approved by someone with proper rights.'

I want to change the text of this message in a particular site collection.

I found the message defined in \12\config\resources\wss.resx with a key of checkin_publishMajordesc.

Does anyone know if there's a way to override the seetiings in the Resources filesat the site collection level, or even at the page level?

The site is currently on wss 2007

Answer 1

The message is from the ApprovalMessage control. It is being used by the InformationBar template found in 12\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES\DefaultTemplates.ascx:

<SharePoint:RenderingTemplate ID="InformationBar" runat="server">
    <Template>
        <SharePoint:GenericInformationBar runat="server">
            <Template_Controls>
                <SharePoint:FileUploadedMessage runat="server"/>
                <SharePoint:ApprovalMessage runat="server"/>
                <SharePoint:EmailCalendarMessage runat="server"/>
                <Sharepoint:CopySourceInfo runat="server" />
                <Sharepoint:AssignToEmailMessage runat="server" />
            </Template_Controls>
        </SharePoint:GenericInformationBar>
    </Template>
</SharePoint:RenderingTemplate>

You could create your own template to override this behavior. Examples are here, here, and here.

It takes some effort, but it works. Alternatively, you could use CSS or Javascript/JQuery to hide/change the text inside table.ms-informationbar.