This article will show you how to schedule when a page version displays. This allows you to rotate content on a page, from version to version, or to unpublish a page on a specific date.
Instructions
- Log in to your site and navigate to the page you want to edit
- Ensure that Live Edit Is On
- On the Versions tab, click Actions for the current version
- Select Options
- Scroll to Display: Stopping Date and enter a date to stop displaying the current version
Note: The stop time will be 11:59 p.m. on the selected date. - Click Save Changes
Note: If your version is in Draft mode, select Save and Publish - Click Actions next to the version you would like to display at a later date
- Select Options
- Scroll to Display: Starting Date and enter a date to display this version
Note: The start time will be 12:00 a.m. on the selected date. - Click Save Changes
- Click Save and Publish
- The Version that is set to publish on a future date will show as Pending
Feedback About the Article
Let us know what was helpful or not helpful about the article below.6 comments
To confirm, if I want to unpublish the full page at a future date, I just schedule the live version to unpublish at a future date. The live version won't automatically roll back to the previous version unless I schedule the previous version to publish simultaneously.
Deb Markham that is correct!
So we can only schedule the current page with an end date and then schedule the new version with a start date? Having the start and end fields right next to each other implies a date range. At first glance, you would think your current publish page would not need any scheduling, you would only need to put a date range for that unpublished page. When the date range expires, the original published page should then go back up. If I have to put an end date on the current published version and then a start date on the unpublished version, you now only have that second version that will forever be published? If I want to put back the original published version, I would have to manually remove the end date on that version, remove the start date on the second version, and then republish that first version in order to get that original version published again? If that is the case, that is creating a little more effort than necessary. What if you had a third version you would like to schedule? This action only appears to work on two versions. Also, what if I put an end date to the current published version and the start date for the unpublished page isn't scheduled for a couple of days later... what page will then show? Will no page appear until that start date?
And going back to what was said one year ago, could we please get a way to schedule the time as well? Thank you
Seconding what Juliet said - or at least having some clarification in this article on what time these occur by default.
I think the Starting On date is 12 am the day you set and the Stopping On date is 11:59 pm the day you set, right?
Nathan Nehring that is correct, the start time will be 12:00 a.m. and the stop time will be 11:59 p.m. Notes have been added to the article!
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