addedValues Plugin

deferredPublishing

Deferred Publishing, not to be confused with scheduled publishing in the metadata plugin, allows website developers to set a message path at some future time. Until that time, the message is held as a story in a reserved directory with a path /deferredPublish/ followed by the value of the ungrouped message variable setPathTo, followed by a date and time level derived from the value of the ungrouped message variable setPathToTimeDate. This permits messages to be "queued up" as versions of a pages visible at a url, at various times in the future. Meanwhile the pending versions can be edited, viewed or even deleted as convenient. Because all pending stories are assigned paths in the /deferredPublish/ category, you can set path attributes of the category, or of each story to control access, forbid static rendering, set templates, etc. . The addedValues scheduler is used to perform the actual process, by calling the standard trigger setPathAndShortcut. Pre-existing stories can be moved into a a user specified directory, with path derived in the same way, by defined a ungrouped globals identifier valued variable deferredPublishingArchive. Deferred Publishing is activated by enabling the deferredPublishing trigger, and the schedule of publishing may be inspected on the timed task page.