Have there been recent (yesterday?) changes to the scheduled publishing and unpublishing? We have a number of time sensitive pages which are scheduled to publish and unpublish at creation. This all worked well until yesterday when a new one could only have it’s publish date schedule - there was no option to add a further scheduled event.
Is there a limit on how many records can be scheduled? We. have 7 with Publish and Unpublish dates but the 8th can only have publish scheduled.
Screen grab from the Publishing Schedule control below
Thank you for this report! It seems to me like you can schedule unpublishing only if the record is currently published. If it’s not currently published, the system won’t let you schedule an **un-**publishing, even if there’s a currently scheduled publishing.
It seems like it should let you though (i.e., if you want a promotion to start next month, but only last for a week before unpublishing itself).
Let me check with the devs on this to see whether this was always the case, or if it’s maybe caused by a bug… I’ll report back as soon as I find out!
Thanks for the response. As you can see from the screenshot below, we were able to schedule both Publish and Unpublish dates prior to first publish. Going by the article creation dates, it looks like something may have changed between 3rd and 9th October (a big window, I realise).
The devs are looking into it. We’ve received a handful of other reports about it too, and your screenshot of the existing unpublished-but-scheduled records is really helpful. Thank you!
We’ll let you know once we figure out what happened and fix it.
As a dirty workaround — that only works if publishing a record doesn’t cause any downstream side effects — you can publish a record, schedule unpublication (while it’s published), and then immediately unpublish it. The schedules would still stay. I realize that is not a great workaround, so we’ll try to get to the root cause of this ASAP. Sorry about that!
Thank you once again for letting us know, we just shipped a fix for this and now you can schedule un-publications even if the record is in draft once again
Let us know if it works now!
Thank you once again for the feedback, and sorry for troubles this may have caused!
