By cbh on

I'm having trouble getting the scheduler module to work. I have the most recent version installed, and it's created the appropriate database tables. I've set content types to allow for publish dates, and permissions to allow authenticated users to set dates and times - though I'm actually the only user with access to the site to produce content and I'm King of the Heap. When the time comes for it to publish the article, nothing happens. I also have JStools installed for the popup claendars. Entering dates manually or using the calendar produce the same results.

I had my defaults for content originally set to unpublished and I've now changed this to published, just in case, but this doesn't seem to make any difference. I also noticed that I am unable to get a story to publish by checking "publish" in the article's Publishing Options, even if the scheduling options are now in the past. If I return to the article after doing this, the "publish" option is once again unchecked. I am able to get the article to publish, though, when I select the article in the content management pane, and then instruct it to publish and select update.

From what I can tell I've followed all the steps I'm supposed to, and I also have a cron.php running regularly.

Running the current release of Drupal - I'm stuck, and any suggestions to get this to work, or suggestions about something else that would do the trick would be appreciated.

Thanks
Chris Hutcheson

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cbh commented

I think there's an issue with how it works with time zone settings. I've set my drupal installation to have a time offset of -5 hours (here in Toronto, Canada) This works fine in displaying article publish times, but shcheduler posts the articles two hours later than the time I set for them to display.

Any suggestions/ideas would be appreciated!
Thanlks.
Chris

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vm commented

and how often is cron run ?

scheduler is dependant on cron runs. obviously if you schedule a node to be published in an hour, but cron isnt run for another 2 hours, the post is not published until that cron run.

finding a happy medium with cron and scheduler is the way to go, maybe have cron run every 20mins so it will catch both , scheduled posts for each 1/2 hour and each 1 hour?

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cbh commented

Thanks - I think you've hit the nail on the head - I'm new to the cron concept - I had it set for what I thought was every 30 minutes, but think I understand it better now. I had it set to go off at every half hour on the hour. Will fix.

Thanks again!

Cheers
Chris

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sepeck commented

I would like to point out Scheduler modules rather nice handbook page too which may have some other helpfull notes.
http://drupal.org/node/108984

-Steven Peck
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cbh commented

I checked the handbook page out, and I think I've got all the bases covered now. Thanks, everyone, for your help!

Chris