Help Scheduling Content to Publish [#319646]

I am having extreme difficulty configuring rules to publish content. Ideally, we would publish content on the date entered in the "post date" field.

The idea would be to have a triggered rule that fired on every cron to check for any content where content is NOT published and [date]<[site-date] and publishes it. There might be a simpler way, but it eludes me at the present time.

The documentation for this module seems very hastily created for non-developers...

Comments

Comment #1

fago

German

Vienna

CreditAttribution: fago commented 17 October 2008 at 11:04

Component:	Rules Core	» Rules Engine
Status:	Active	» Fixed

when the content is created, schedule the execution of a rule set, which sets it to published on the given date...

Comment #2

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 31 October 2008 at 11:12

Status:

Fixed

» Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

Comment #3

fred0 CreditAttribution: fred0 commented 27 December 2008 at 08:53

Status:

Closed (fixed)

» Active

Sorry, re-opening. That reply doesn't make any sense. I've been trying to do this, but Rule Sets do not have any actions that would publish content. I see how to create a Triggered Rule to schedule a Rule Set, but the only node action in Rule Sets is Load Content By ID. Nothing about publishing.
Please write some documentation! This appears to be a powerful module and I'd really like to harness that power, but we REALLY need documentation.

Comment #4

amitaibu

Hebrew

Israel

CreditAttribution: amitaibu commented 27 December 2008 at 11:54

Status:

Active

» Fixed

1) Only after you load the content, you will see the action to publish it. when #260617: Expose hidden actions/ conditions is committed it will make it easier to understand.
2) How about you document your findings according to the answer Fago & I gave?

Comment #5

fred0 CreditAttribution: fred0 commented 27 December 2008 at 19:07

I'd be happy to... but could you explain the use of load content by id? I get the basic idea, but the required fields are confusing. Especially Content ID. Is that supposed to be a node id (ie the last part of http://domain.com/node/123) or is it a new identifier specific to this function and provided to subsequent actions?

That's really what I'm asking for: not a tutorial, but a breakdown of the actions and conditions so that one can understand what each is meant to do more clearly and specifically.