The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.Was thinking it would be neat to have some text that you could click when setting a schedule on a node to randomly set a date and time within a time frame. So if I clicked "this week" it would use Ajax or whatever and populate the fields with a random date and time within the next 7 days. Then you could set a default to "this week" or "this month" or whatever your preference is, and sort of forget about scheduling manually.
It would be nice because it takes the thought out of "when should I set this for" which typically just wastes brain power and makes you tired. :)
Thoughts? I'm not a coder or I'd help, sorry, you can kick me later. :) Just thought it might be useful, talk amongst yourselves.
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Comment #1
jonathan1055 commentedHi,
Just looking through the issue queue to tidy it up, and ignoring 'postponed' this was the issue with the longest time since last response - two years and six months.
I quite like the idea of saving the writers some brain power, and letting the system do it. Moving this to 7.x and we might take a look at it if there is any response.
If anyone likes this idea give a reply and we'll see.
Jonathan
Comment #2
pfrenssenI don't like this, at least not the random part. I think that the 80% case of people that use Scheduler is to have content scheduled at specific dates and times, not at some random point in the future.
Comment #3
jonathan1055 commentedYes it is a slightly odd request. I'm happy to leave it close as 'wont fix', not least because the original writer has not responded for over a year.
I refered to this post from another recent request but I mis-remembered what this one was about. I thought it was a single click button to set the date to 'one week from now', 'one month from now', which may be useful, but that discussion can continue on #2180865: Set time period for expiration (hours, days, weeks, months)
Jonathan
[there should be a status for feature requests of 'closed (will not implement)' because 'wont fix' and 'works as designed' are not exactly correct for the reason for closing]
Comment #4
pfrenssenAnyone that needs this functionality can implement it themselves in a custom module without making any changes to the Scheduler module itself, by altering the existing forms and inserting a new validation handler that will populate the random values. Shouldn't be too hard.