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Hello folks,

I've been trying to find out how I can write in many pages at once, and then activate them at predefined times in the future, automatically. In essence, I'm looking for a "publish date" type feature for each page, so that the articles automatically appear at set times. Have I missed something? Is there a module that takes care of this?

Cheers!

News module - use expiration date.

Thanks, but I don't believe I can publish ordinary articles at a specific time using the News module? I want the content of my CMS to actually change at set times, ie publish new articles so that they coincide with other work that is going on, without having to manually log on to activate the article on the CMS.

catfish wrote: Thanks, but I don't believe I can publish ordinary articles at a specific time using the News module? I want the content of my CMS to actually change at set times, ie publish new articles so that they coincide with other work that is going on, without having to manually log on to activate the article on the CMS.

What do you mean by 'ordinary article'? The News module will do exactly this without you having to login. When you 'Add Article' on the edit page at the bottom, you will see an option for 'Use Expiration Date:' Check the box and set the date for when you want the articles to be published. Done.

You could play around with the use of the extra1/extra2 field and have those hold the date in which a page is to be shown. In the menu-template you should check for these two fields additionally then.

See f.e. http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... #msg176415

Ronny

Ziggywigged wrote: What do you mean by 'ordinary article'? The News module will do exactly this without you having to login. When you 'Add Article' on the edit page at the bottom, you will see an option for 'Use Expiration Date:' Check the box and set the date for when you want the articles to be published. Done.

Thanks again for the suggestion! And sorry for the confusion; when I said 'ordinary article', I actually meant an ordinary Page. The only place I can see the publish date and expiration date stuff you mention is under Content -> News -> Add article, but I need this functionality under Content -> Pages -> Add New Content. The reason is that I need to maintain my website navigation structure and menus, with all the bits and bobs that I am using in the pages (including URL structure, template modifications, etc). I don't see how the News module can solve this without major reworking of the entire website.

Ronny, thanks for the tip! I might look into this as a workaround. The problem is that I am also using extensions where this won't work - for example SiteMap Made Simple. The pages would appear in the sitemap as long as they are active, unless I change that too.

I guess the extension/functionality to do what I need doesn't exist yet.