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Ed
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Oct 7, 2002, 10:39 AM
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Okay I had added this to the wrong area so I will try again.
We have a great many news sections that are date sensitive. There is a need especially for erasing of articles such as : City Council Agenda for Oct 7th. It would be nice if I could select a date to delete this article. While not as important, we do get Press Releases that tell us not to put up the article until a certain date. We would like to just motor along putting in articles and news stories selecting a date for publishing and a date to remove.
Of course we also have sections that we just leave up such as food recipes..etc.
I can't speak for anyone else but this is becoming critical to our operation.
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MalaK_3araby
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Oct 7, 2002, 11:08 AM
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Hiya Ed ..
Article Expirt Date is a good idea.
Personally, I might be able to use it with the Featured Story.
But what do we want to happen to the article when it expires?
deleted? archived? hidden? pending? or a new category "Expired"?
Since the system publishes all articles to static HTML pages, how is the action to chek expired article run?
Daily maintainance from admin? Cron jobs that run at certain intervals?
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ecamty
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Oct 7, 2002, 11:09 AM
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I totally agree with Ed on this. It would be very nice to be able to hide certain articles until a specific date.
For example, you could add in these options under "Hidden (awaiting aproval)" that read: - "Visible from $date$ to $enddate$"
- "Visible until $enddate$"
Just an exemple. I really like this Idea.
Also, instead of creating a new discussion, I would like to add another idea that fits under this category:
A "message of the day" section, where you could add just that, a message of the day. I know there are other cgi programs to do that, however, you need to either edit a text file (easy) or go into another admin program (enter passwords, etc.).
The output for this "MOTD" could be placed either where "Last update" is in the original templates or over/under it.
If you implement the "article control by date" idea, this MOTD idea would be a quick addon that could lift up a site´s image. This is just an idea of an addon to AM, however it could also be implemented as a new product.
Here to help!
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Eugenio B.
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itools@ecamty.net
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Ed
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Oct 7, 2002, 11:26 AM
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Well maybe you are given an option. I know from my experience that if I am dealing with a date sensitive story I most likely want it deleted. However, maybe the option is given to delete or archive.
Neither of these options should be very hard to incorporate.
The way it is for us now, we have actually missed publishing articles because we forgot to take it out of hidden. Purely a administrative error but something that could be quickly remedied with a date routine.
As far as processing this routine, I imagine it is done on a nitely basis. The administrator setting the time he wants this to occur. Most of you are probably like us where we have all kinds of processes running at night like WebTrends etc. So it would be better for us to pick the time we want this date process to run.
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