# Scheduled publishing **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [June 13, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226 "2006-06-13T10:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/1 "2006-06-13T10:39:19Z")
(sorry for the dupe, i posted the same message with the wrong subject) During a migration to radiant, we had to correct the publish date of archived posts via the database; we had a little idea: ‘status of a page’ select box is now: -draft -reviewed -published -hidden wouldn’t it be nice to have: -draft -reviewed -publish now -publish on… -hidden It allows the schedule of a post, and even modifying a publication date in the past. * * * Radiant mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/2 "2006-06-13T12:54:07Z")
I like that idea of adding in publish on… What happens once the date has arrived? Will the status changed to: publish now? I do like the idea of being able to modify the publish date. I don’t think this should be an option though that is available in the UI. Keep it hidden and as an option to change so not to clutter the UI. Chris- On Jun 13, 2006, at 4:34 AM, Tristan Boniver wrote: > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) Chris Corriveau: CTO of Genevate - P.O. Box 1829, North Falmouth, MA 02556 contact | removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - 508.564.5676 ext. 202 | toll free - 866.GENEVATE ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/3 "2006-06-14T04:38:41Z")
[http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/41](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/41) Adds the ability to modify the published date to the UI. Didn’t do any ‘publish later’ magic (you’d need to have some sort of cron job set up to update things), but this will at least allow back-dating of entries. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/4 "2006-06-16T07:37:56Z")
Is it possible to sort children using another attribute than the publication date ? ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/5 "2006-06-16T07:50:01Z")
[http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/trunk/radiant/app/models/page\_](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/trunk/radiant/app/models/page_) context.rb#L80 There’s a “by” attribute to select which field to sort by. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/6 "2006-06-16T15:26:22Z")
Right now i’m hacking my way through ordering children by using numbers in my unused ‘breadcrumb’ field (very dirty) Anyone implementing a sortable-list solution for ordering items in the ‘Pages tree’ will be a hero ! Tristan ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/7 "2006-06-16T17:16:56Z")
Tristan Boniver wrote: > Right now i’m hacking my way through ordering children by using > numbers in my unused ‘breadcrumb’ field (very dirty) > > Anyone implementing a sortable-list solution for ordering items in > the ‘Pages tree’ will be a hero ! +1 🙂 – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/8 "2006-06-16T12:08:15Z")
published\_at seems to be the default attribute; is there a “position” or “order” attribute available out of the box ? (I don’t see anything in the GUI) Or a way to do it… like creating a part “position” with a number in it ? T (note : i ask those questions as a simple radiant user) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/9 "2006-06-19T03:34:57Z")
John L. wrote: > > Anyone implementing a sortable-list solution for ordering items in > > the ‘Pages tree’ will be a hero ! > > +1 🙂 [http://dev.radiantcms.org:9007/radiant/ticket/45](http://dev.radiantcms.org:9007/radiant/ticket/45) The code there does the model stuff. The user interface will probably involve a complete rewrite of the javascript and html for the admin sitemap. To do it right would probably involve changing the admin pages to use 's instead of tables (as scriptaculous doesn’t to drag/drop of table rows) - this would probably make for cleaner javascript and html, though it will probably make for more complicated (and possibly less flexible) css. I’m going to try concentrating on my complex page model changes (ticket 40) as that’s my big ‘go-live’ hurdle. So I don’t want to get distracted by this for now. If anybody wants to pick up the view side of this, hopefully the model code should give you what you need to get going. Otherwise I’ll try and get back to it later. Daniel S. Website Administrator [http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com](http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/10 "2006-06-19T04:05:06Z")
On 6/18/06, Keith B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is anyone else going to be at Railsconf? We could have a RadiantCMS get > together… I’ll be at RailsConf (the 21st to 25th); sounds like a good idea. ## Cheers, Bruce [http://codefluency.com](http://codefluency.com) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/11 "2006-06-19T04:08:21Z")
I’ll be going to Railsconf, could be up for a meetup. Chris- On Jun 18, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Keith B. wrote: > > involve a complete rewrite of the javascript and html for the admin > > 40) as that’s my big ‘go-live’ hurdle. So I don’t want to get > > hard. I have done a few applications doing this sort of thing with > > [http://www.bitchkittyracing.com](http://www.bitchkittyracing.com) > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) Chris Corriveau: CTO of Genevate - P.O. Box 1829, North Falmouth, MA 02556 contact | removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - 508.564.5676 ext. 202 | toll free - 866.GENEVATE Visit: [CapePropertySearch.com](http://CapePropertySearch.com) has graphs and trends on over 6,500+ Cape Cod properties. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/12 "2006-06-19T16:32:01Z")
Keith B. wrote: > I would be interesting in looking into doing this. It shouldn’t be too > hard. I have done a few applications doing this sort of thing with lists > and the styles are not that complicated. I think it may even be easier > than a table, though that is a matter of taste. I am on the road, but > will give a serious go at the views this week. I’d prefer a drag and drop sortable table. Sortable lists > Is anyone else going to be at Railsconf? We could have a RadiantCMS get > together… I’ll be there. Would you guys be up for meeting Thursday afternoon at some point? We could also do Saturday lunch if that would work better for everyone. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/13 "2006-06-19T16:47:43Z")
John W. Long wrote: > I’d prefer a drag and drop sortable table. Sortable lists Grrr. Hit the send button prematurely. I was going to say that I think a table may be the only way to display that information in a “tabular” fashion. It’s probably semantically correct as well. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/14 "2006-06-19T03:58:07Z")
Daniel S. wrote: > John L. wrote: > > > > Anyone implementing a sortable-list solution for ordering items in > > > the ‘Pages tree’ will be a hero ! > > > > +1 🙂 > > [http://dev.radiantcms.org:9007/radiant/ticket/45](http://dev.radiantcms.org:9007/radiant/ticket/45) > > The code there does the model stuff. The user interface will probably > involve a complete rewrite of the javascript and html for the admin > sitemap. To do it right would probably involve changing the admin pages > to use > > 's instead of tables (as scriptaculous doesn’t to drag/drop > of table rows) - this would probably make for cleaner javascript and > html, though it will probably make for more complicated (and possibly > less flexible) css. > > I’m going to try concentrating on my complex page model changes (ticket > 40) as that’s my big ‘go-live’ hurdle. So I don’t want to get distracted > by this for now. If anybody wants to pick up the view side of this, > hopefully the model code should give you what you need to get going. > Otherwise I’ll try and get back to it later. > > Daniel S. > Website Administrator > [http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com](http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com) I would be interesting in looking into doing this. It shouldn’t be too hard. I have done a few applications doing this sort of thing with lists and the styles are not that complicated. I think it may even be easier than a table, though that is a matter of taste. I am on the road, but will give a serious go at the views this week. Is anyone else going to be at Railsconf? We could have a RadiantCMS get together… Keith B. [http://www.bitchkittyracing.com](http://www.bitchkittyracing.com) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/15 "2006-06-19T17:19:08Z")
The ‘pages’ page can be considered as a list of items with their tools/actions vertically aligned on the right… I’ve seen successful examples of doing that job ( and I remember doing it myself in minutes, sortable via scriptaculous, but i can’t reach it right now 😕 ) Tristan ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/16 "2006-06-20T18:44:02Z")
> John W. Long wrote: > > > I’d prefer a drag and drop sortable table. Sortable lists > > Grrr. Hit the send button prematurely. I was going to say > that I think a > table may be the only way to display that information in a “tabular” > fashion. It’s probably semantically correct as well. I don’t think that’s right on either count. The pages aren’t a flat table. They’re a nested list, which 's are the more representative tag for (or 's I guess, since we’re doing this for sorting). Making the lists look like tables should certainly be a possibility - some careful floating should get us there. Plus the fact that there are exactly zero libraries that allow the drag and drop sorting of table rows - browsers are very hostile to such things. Also, a bit of an aside, but vaguely related - drag and drop of pages to a different parent is probably not a good idea. I’m a big fan of “Cool URI’s Don’t Change” philosophy, and would like to discourage such movement of published pages. I’d like to have some sort of “move page” option which will reparent the page and replace the existing page with a redirect. But I’m yet to imagine how I’d like that to function in a user-friendly manner. Someday inspiration will strike. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/17 "2006-06-19T23:01:52Z")
I just switched the admin interface over to a , there are a few bugs, but for the most part it works nicely. I did it on the bus on the way to Chicago, so it is a bit rough. But with a little effort, it will look and work just as it did before. Sortable lists are then very easy. I will take a look at the controller code and see if I can fit it all together… Keith Tristan Boniver wrote: > The ‘pages’ page can be considered as a list of items with their > tools/actions vertically aligned on the right… > > I’ve seen successful examples of > > doing that job ( and I > remember doing it myself in minutes, sortable via scriptaculous, but > i can’t reach it right now 😕 ) > > Tristan ---
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On Jun 19, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Daniel S. wrote: > I’d like to have some sort of “move page” > option which will reparent the page and replace the existing page > with a > redirect. But I’m yet to imagine how I’d like that to function in a > user-friendly manner. Someday inspiration will strike. What if drag ‘n’ dropping a published page left a gray entry representing a redirect, and pressing “delete” on that redirect row produced a warning saying that people might be linking to that URL? Just a brainstorm. – Ryan P. Senior Developer, SubscriberMail, LLC 3333 Warrenville Rd. Suite 530 Lisle, IL 60532 (630) 303-5072 Not Just Email…SubscriberMail > **[subscribermail.com domain name is for sale. Inquire now.](https://www.subscribermail.com/)** > > subscribermail.com is available for purchase. Get in touch to discuss the possibilities! This message (including attachments) contains proprietary information which may not be disclosed or used beyond the purposes of this message without the written consent of SubscriberMail, LLC. If you receive this message in error, notify the sender and destroy this message and all attachments immediately. Thank you. SubscriberMail is covered under US PATENT 6,769,002 ---
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On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:25 AM, John W. Long wrote: > Tables are also much, much easier to > style for this kind of thing. It gets pretty messy when you try to do > the same thing with floats. Not if you have fixed-length widths you can just plug in to the elements. Simple. – Ryan P. Senior Developer, SubscriberMail, LLC 3333 Warrenville Rd. Suite 530 Lisle, IL 60532 (630) 303-5072 Not Just Email…SubscriberMail > **[subscribermail.com domain name is for sale. Inquire now.](https://www.subscribermail.com/)** > > subscribermail.com is available for purchase. Get in touch to discuss the possibilities! This message (including attachments) contains proprietary information which may not be disclosed or used beyond the purposes of this message without the written consent of SubscriberMail, LLC. If you receive this message in error, notify the sender and destroy this message and all attachments immediately. Thank you. SubscriberMail is covered under US PATENT 6,769,002 ---
**Author:** ![Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tristan\_Boniver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tristan_Boniver)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226/20 "2006-08-03T14:24:06Z")
> What if drag ‘n’ dropping a published page left a gray entry > representing a redirect, and pressing “delete” on that redirect row > produced a warning saying that people might be linking to that URL? That’s how I’ve been imagining it, but dragging and dropping between nested lists can sometimes be a little hard to do. If you make a couple of accidental drops, you’ll end up with trailing redirects. Maybe that’s not as much of an issue as I think though - guess we’ll see when there’s an implementation. Dan. [Next page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scheduled-publishing/63226.md?page=2)