If publish_on date is today publish now

Why schedule at all if it is to be published immediately?

Hi ksiebel,

I do see what you mean. Users can make decisions that developers think are odd, but to the user it seems perfectly ordinary. We should not dismiss this idea, if it makes the user experience better.

Alternatively we could add a message right by the date entry field saying something like 'If you want this content published immediately then do not enter any date here'. The message content may also depend on whether the default status is 'publish' for the content type being created, and/or whether the user has the ability to open the 'publishing' fieldset to change it. There may be situations where the only way a user is allowed to publish content is via scheduler and not immediately.

Jonathan

Long, long time ago, scheduler would publish nodes right away if the publish_on date/time was in the past. Why did we change that? I can't remember. There must have been a reason. Jonathan, do you recall the reason?

It was changed in May 2009 in #429004: Disallow publish_on and unpublish_on dates in the past. Read from #8 to #15.

Looks like your option b) from #9 would be better then disallowing past dates.

Hello Kilian,

There is an enhancement #1819074: Allow publish_on dates in the past which should solve your problem. That issue has a patch which is ready for review, so if you have the means to test it on a 7.x site that would be good.

Thanks

Jonathan

Indeed we had this same problem on 7.x and #1819074: Allow publish_on dates in the past solves this. I will add a tag to backport that issue to 6.x, and mark this as a duplicate.

OK thanks.

I was hoping that the original poster Kilian Siebel was going to reply and hopefully test that patch. I contacted them directly but heard nothing (it was over two years, so I suppose they are not using Drupal anymore)

Jonathan