Ideas for Arc XP

Hi Florian,

Thanks for your input -- really helpful.

Regarding your question, "if we set the collection on manual mode, we would be able to scheduled multiple times this same collection after the first autopublish ?" I haven't worked out the full solution yet. But it makes sense that you could set a Collection to auto-publish over and over again.

- Stuart

Hi Stuart,

We agree with previous comments, the best solution for our organisation would be the 3.

Just to be sure, if we set the collection on manual mode, we would be able to scheduled multiple times this same collection after the first autopublish ?

Thank you

Florian Desloires
Libération

Thank you, Jean-Philippe. I really appreciate your input!

- Stuart

Hi Stuart,

Our preferred solution is option 3:

"The Editor/Manager who configures the Collections also sets Autopublish to either Automatic or Manual and the Collection follows that behavior once the scheduled publish date has passed."

Many Thanks,

Jean-Philippe

IPM Group

Thank you, Doma. I really appreciate you sharing your perspective!

- Stuart

Hi there,

This feature of scheduling articles to collection is also necessary for my organization. The ability to automatically reflect articles in the future when the person in charge is not working will increase work efficiency.

I wish the editor could check the desired settings, manual or automatic, and schedule an article.

Thanks,

Doma

Thank you J.T.!

- Stuart

Just adding my two cents. If the colection is set on autopublish, scheduling would be a bit confusing as the main point of this mode is that all of the changes are imidiatly pubblished and visible on the parts of the site powered by the collection.

In my opinion this would make more sense:
- If you want to do a scheduled publish of the collection you switch to manual mode
- make the adjustments needed
- schedule them
- after schedule happens the collection stays in manual mode
- If you want auto publish again, you switch the collection mode in settings

Not sure how the collection would distinguish that the changes you are setting up need to be scheduled while in auto mode.

A nice to have feature would also be that you would be able to schedule multiple collection variations. That way you would be able to curate multiple article layouts that automatically change douring the holliday period without having to log in.

Hi Brian,

This is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you!

I'm all ears for other use cases.

Best,
Stuart

Stuart,

Thanks for getting this on the roadmap!

once the scheduled time has passed then I think it should revert to the autopublish setting based on the Collections editor's preference, as it exists today.

So if my collection is autopublish=true, I schedule a publish time of tomorrow morning, and then add articles to my collection and arrange them, that collection will not publish until the scheduled publish time. But an hour after that scheduled publish time I want the collection to behave the way it did prior to me scheduling a publish time, whether that be automatic publish or manual publishn (as indicated in the Collection settings).

Does that make sense? Is that the direction you're thinking of?

Hi all,

I'm getting this update into the development cycle and have a follow-on question for you: once the scheduled publish date for a Collection has passed how should the Collection behave?

1. Autopublish always defaults to Automatic so any new content added to the Collections causes the Collection to automatically re-publish.

2. Autopublish always defaults to Manual (non-automatic) so any new content added to the Collections requires the Collection to be manually re-published.

3. The Editor/Manager who configures the Collections also sets Autopublish to either Automatic or Manual and the Collection follows that behavior once the scheduled publish date has passed.

Please let me know which solution makes the best sense for you, and if you can include a use case that would be great! We want to be sure that we create a usable solution that doesn't confuse your teams.

Thank you,
Stuart Ridgway
Sr. Product Manager for WebSked

Hello,

I see these ideas have been merged recently. Wondering if this has gone into planning?

Thanks,

Natalie

Hi Stuart,

For updating blocks on a Saturday, the team will order a scheduled story at the top of the Collection list, so when it goes live on Saturday the update applies automatically (at least this is what I think the team does).

For the holiday period, this differs slightly because a) a lot of the content they want to feature in the homepage blocks is already published and b) there are a lot of stories that would need to be lined up.

Thanks,

Natalie

Thank you for the details on this, Natalie.

Can you give me a little bit more information? Collections are most often used to populate blocks on a page. If you wanted to a particular Collection to automatically populate blocks on your Home page on Saturday, how would you image you populate those blocks before Saturday?

I'm curious how you would want to set those blocks up in advance so come Saturday the blocks are populated by the new Collection.

Thanks!
Stuart
Product Manager for WebSked

I've closed WS-I-223 so it can be tracked here.

Definitely need this within our business as well! Another use case we have is over the holiday period when our office closes.

We don't want stale content on our homepage for the two weeks our office is closed, but also don't want members of our team to have to log on during this period.

I note that similar idea has also been posted on the portal previously:
https://ideas.arcxp.com/ideas/WS-I-223

Any idea on timing for this feature?

looking into this for near term future!