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nigelparry.net
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Jan 22, 2009, 8:37 AM

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Is it possible to have articles auto publish at a future date in Article Manager 2?
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Jan 22, 2009, 12:26 PM

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Re: [nigelparry.net] Possible to have articles auto publish at a future date? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Nigel,

Not at the moment. Since Article Manager doesn't actually publish anything automatically, that's not possible currently.

It's definitely been suggested to the developers, though. :)

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Jan 22, 2009, 12:34 PM

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Re: [Donna] Possible to have articles auto publish at a future date? [In reply to] Can't Post
:-)

How about with templateIfs that only publish an article/article reference if its publish date is prior to today's date?

Presumably that would only work if templateIfs can do greater thans, and dates were stored as YYYYMMDD or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.

Technically that's not the same as autopublishing because you'd have to login and do a republish all to activate it, but is what I am describing even possible?

Thanks Donna!
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Donna
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Jan 23, 2009, 2:17 PM

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Re: [nigelparry.net] Possible to have articles auto publish at a future date? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Nigel,

Hmm, interesting idea!

I fiddled around with this a bit, and ... the hard part was finding a date to compare it to. Best I could come up with was the "last updated" date.

So, I did this:

<!-- templateIf : $_lastupdated:format(yyMMdd)$ >= $article.date:format(yyMMdd)$ -->
This content is generated if true.
<!-- /templateIf -->

...and it works. But, one very annoying caveat: Since it's going off of the "last updated" date, the value will only update if you modify an article. So, if you want an easy way to make a bunch of articles go live at once, it's not a bad solution. If you want something that automatically updates daily, it's ... not the greatest.

That said, if you can find a better way of getting it to generate today's date, instead of just the last updated date, then you've got a pretty decent solution. :)

Donna

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mingyq
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Jun 20, 2009, 8:32 AM

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Re: [Donna] Possible to have articles auto publish at a future date? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hello Donna

Instead of using the $lastupdated date, couldn't you create a $publishStartDate and a $publishEndDate in the database and then check these towards the current server date? This way you should be able to have these articles showing up within the specific date interval. Of course if no start/end dates have been input on the article, it will be treated the same way as it is now. If a start date has been given, but no end date it will show up at the start date and stay forever! If no start date, but an end date has been given it will show immidiately and then disappear when the end date is reached?

What do you think?


Kimber
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Jun 23, 2009, 4:54 AM

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Re: [mingyq] Possible to have articles auto publish at a future date? [In reply to] Can't Post
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Hello Donna

Instead of using the $lastupdated date, couldn't you create a $publishStartDate and a $publishEndDate in the database and then check these towards the current server date? This way you should be able to have these articles showing up within the specific date interval. Of course if no start/end dates have been input on the article, it will be treated the same way as it is now. If a start date has been given, but no end date it will show up at the start date and stay forever! If no start date, but an end date has been given it will show immidiately and then disappear when the end date is reached?

What do you think?
Wouldn't you still have log-in and click republish anyway?


mingyq
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Jun 23, 2009, 5:51 AM

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Re: [Kimber] Possible to have articles auto publish at a future date? [In reply to] Can't Post
I guess the only thing they need to get around that is to create a "Auto-Publish" script that runs once a day to get these articles published automatically.

Bottom line is that a publishing tool based on articles like this really should have this functionality and it is the # 1 request our clients ask for as soon as we have installed it.


Kimber
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Jun 23, 2009, 6:19 AM

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I guess the only thing they need to get around that is to create a "Auto-Publish" script that runs once a day to get these articles published automatically.

Bottom line is that a publishing tool based on articles like this really should have this functionality and it is the # 1 request our clients ask for as soon as we have installed it.


I can understand the bottom line, it is #1 on my list. There are times I hired someone to click the publish button once a day so I can have some unplugged computer free time. Smile


Donna
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Jun 23, 2009, 12:01 PM

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Re: [mingyq] Possible to have articles auto publish at a future date? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi mingyq,

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Instead of using the $lastupdated date, couldn't you create a $publishStartDate and a $publishEndDate in the database and then check these towards the current server date?

Sure could -- just create the fields in the database (they'd actually be more like $article.publishStartDate$ depending on what you named them) and you can compare those to the current date no problem. It's not something built into Article Manager, but you could certainly create those fields no problem.

However, as was mentioned, you'd still need to log in & republish. Article Manager won't do that automatically no matter what fields are used.

Donna

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