Publish/Delete of articles on date

Monday 21 March 2005 7:45:58 am

I need the possibility to set an article to be automatically published on a given date, and to be automatically unpublished/delete on a given later date. Is this something that is possible to set in the admin interface of ez version 3.5.1. If it's not, is there any other way?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Tuesday 22 March 2005 1:30:18 am

hi halasy,

Thanks for your kind reply. I know publish on date is possible by the wait until date event triggered before the content publish. Thats working. Kindly let me know how to do unpublish part. I cannot find unpublish event for this part.

cheers

Thursday 24 March 2005 2:01:06 am

Hi,

This page could be usefull for you :

http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/development/extensions/workflow_events/unpublish

Combining this "unpublish" workflow event with the "wait until date" event should do the job.

Lex

Thursday 24 March 2005 2:32:39 am

I haven't tried it so there is no garantee that it will work "as is" ;-)

- modify the article class with a date attribute (the value of this date should be the date it is published)

- follow the explainations from the link to create a "unpublish" workflow event

- create a new workflow called "Unpublish Workflow" with a "wait until date" workflow event and after that a "unpublish" workflow

- assign this workflow to the trigger "before publish"

- use the cronjob to run the workflow periodically

Hope it helps