By neko on
Hi guys,
I'm evaluating Drupal for use in an intranet, and so far it's met all my feature requirements, with the exception of it's publishing features (I think).
What I want is for an editor to be able to create a story and set the date for it to go live (so don't go live straight away after it's been approved). I also want to define a way to easily set expiry dates for stories.
For example, a monthly story goes live on X and gets archived at the end of that month, wheras a weekly story only is up for that week. Something flexible and generic.
So, does Drupal currently support this (ie, am I blind), or has anyone in the community had the same feature requirement, and implmented it already?
cheers,
neko
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it does exist, but ...
marco wrote a module to do this but it requires the experimental node API so it can only serve as a guide for you to write your own.
see his sandbox here.
cool
Downloaded the scheduler.module - any docco on how to use it? I haven't gone over Drupal's code / docco (I'll be doing that asap) - but a head-start would be appreciated, due to tight deadlines.
speaking of the experimental node API
did you get any further with it (than checking out the properly dated version
)?
No
I believe this is called "bitrot". ;(
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What's the deal with the "experiemental node api"?
A new api? How will it differ? Any links to some docco? I'm going to add a few extra fields for the story, when the admin approves and publishes a story (maybe node in general), he can set the go-live date and then choose when to expire (drop down - week/month).
That should meet my requirements nicely. I'll see if I can find a freeware date picker (like a calendar).
experimental api explained
see this post its replies. the code is in kjartan's sandbox in Contrib repository. The patch is bitrotted now, so we need a brave soul to update it.