Schedule Drafts to Publish Over Current Page

[angrybrad]

Created by: Ian Shea ([email protected]) on 2015/05/22 15:31:08 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 26

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With Craft there are a few ways you could setup some tricky templates/fields or matrix blocks that I can think of to accomplish scheduling content. However, I believe the easiest way would be to allow an entry to be republished with a different draft at a user specified post date. Here is a usage case scenario.

Site is for a theoretical contest.

1. Homepage Promotes Contest coming up with a countdown.
2. Admin creates a Hompeage draft set to publish at 8:00AM to begin promoting entries to contest.
3. Admin creates additional Homepage draft set to publish at 5:00PM noting the contest had ended.

This is a very simple example. But being able to schedule drafts to overtake current entries would be a powerfully awesome feature.

[angrybrad]

Posted by Al ([email protected]) on 2016/11/21 18:00:27 +0000

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#1 request from my team

[angrybrad]

Posted by Taylor ([email protected]) on 2015/06/15 22:33:51 +0000

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In addition to this, I have a real-world scenario where authors want to be able to schedule updates to single entries like the homepage.

To mock this i've created channels to break the homepage up into publish-able entries but in our use case we need to also set publish dates per locale. Slugs and status can be unique per locale but when modifying the publish-date it is currently global across locales of that entry.

[angrybrad]

Posted by David Ritter ([email protected]) on 2015/05/18 19:35:25 +0000

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Extremely useful IMO.

[raygers]

Will this feature be available in Craft 3?

[brandonkelly]

@raygers Craft doesn’t have built-in support for scheduled jobs (e.g. #1260), so it’s not a possibility yet, at least without a plugin.

[nmann4789]

Is there a timetable of when this feature will be added to Craft 3?

[brandonkelly]

@nmann4789 I was hoping to get something like this into 3.2 but ran out of time. Just added it to the 3.3 milestone.

[nmann4789]

That's great news! Any idea on a timetable for 3.3?

[brandonkelly]

Not yet, 3.2 is just in beta right now.

[sjcallender]

Similar FR here: #2116

[codyjames]

Our client is asking for this now so I am excited to see it coming in 3.3.

[timkelty]

Queue jobs currently accept a "delay", which is a little awkward for a scheduled DateTime like a publish date.

Implementing something like: yiisoft/yii2-queue#111 seems like it would make sense.

With that in place, we could fire a "publish" event that would allow other integrations to perform necessary tasks (e.g. clear static caches).

[brandonkelly]

Going to close this in favor of #2116.