How to show CMS authors the page status

How often do you get called by an OpenText CMS author who’s complaining:

They: My pages won’t publish! The system is broken
You: Did you release your page?
They: Oh, wait, let me check. Uhm.. Nevermind, bye..

Just use the snippet below to include the status of pages inside the CMS pages and/or content blocks. It shows the CMS user straight away if the page has been released or is waiting for release and saves hours of phone calls.
Also: This post is re-using the code from a previous post, which you can find here.

<div class="reddot">
  <p class="right"><strong>Block/Page status: </strong>
    <reddot:cms>
      <if>
        <query valuea="Context:CurrentPage.State.ToString().ToLower().Trim()" operator="==" valueb="String:released">
	  <htmltext><span class="status Released">Released</span></htmltext>
	</query>
      </if>
      <if>
        <query valuea="Context:CurrentPage.State.ToString().ToLower().Trim()" operator="==" valueb="String:checkedout">
          <htmltext><span class="status CheckedOut">Checked Out</span></htmltext>
        </query>
      </if>
      <if>
        <query valuea="Context:CurrentPage.State.ToString().ToLower().Trim()" operator="==" valueb="String:waitingforrelease">
        <htmltext><span class="status WaitingForRelease">Waiting for Release</span></htmltext>
      </query>
    </if>
  </reddot:cms>
</p>
</div>

If you look closely you will see in the code above that I’ve added a class to each SPAN tag. If you use this method you can style the element and add colors or icons to show the status to your users.
Here’s a screenshot of a project where a co-worker (Hi, Angel) and I have used this