Backdating articles (importing old articles from an old blog)

[patrick.banks]

Hi there,

I’m in the middle of migrating an old blog across to DatoCMS (great product by the way!).

As these articles were previously published, how can I “back date” the publish date to article’s orginal date.

An example:
Blog article “Top 10 CMS Tools Compared” was published live on the internet in another system on 1 Jan 2018. The article now has been migrated to DatoCMS and published today (15 Jan 2020). How can the “publish date” in DatoCMS be changed so taht it reflects the original publish date (1 Jan 2018)?

Regards,

Patrick

[mat_jack1]

hello @patrick.banks and welcome

Have a look at this:

Setting first_published_at / last_published_at using REST API

I’m using the REST Api to migrate some existing data and was wondering how to populate the first_published_at and last_published_at attributes. I tried using first_published_at and got the following error (I’m using the Ruby gem): Status: 422 Response: { "data": [ { "id": "86a89e", "type": "api_error", "attributes": { "code": "INVALID_ATTRIBUTES", "details": { "extraneous_attributes": [ "first_published_at" ] } …

I think it’s your same issue.