Scheduling Posts
Okay, I'm probably one of the bigger internet dunces you guys'll see publishing web fic, and I'm sorry for that. But I have a pretty basic question -- how do I get book pages to be "scheduled" so that I can 'post' them on, say, Wednesday but so that others can't see them until Friday?
And while I'm at it, what does the "promote to front page" option do? I kind of understand (from the other posts) that it'll put it in the "newest first" section. Is that all it does?
Thanks!
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Scheduling: You should see
Scheduling: You should see the option now; I didn't have the switch toggled correctly for it.
Promote to front page: Yep, pretty much. You can use it to do other stuff too, but then you're getting into programming.
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I'm seeing it in the blog
I'm seeing it in the blog content area, but not in the options for creating a book page. ^^;;
Try now.
Try now.
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It's working great now,
It's working great now, thanks! ^^
Okay, I tried to publish it
Okay, I tried to publish it using the scheduling feature and it said this, "Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /home/siprelle/domains/digitalnovelists.com/public_html/includes/common.inc on line 1275." The post isn't appearing on the site or anything (even as an unpublished different color thing). I tried it again and the same thing and message appeared.
sigh. ok, if I recall
sigh. ok, if I recall correctly, this may have happened with Clare's site. I'm still at Orycon, but I'll get this fixed as soon as I can.
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Try now.
Try now.
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Worked like a charm. Thanks
Worked like a charm. Thanks MeiLin! ^^
Hi
I haven't been on this lately/possibly ever... I don't think my scheduler was working, last I checked. It would be a nice thing to have -- can you take a look?
Hi Gavin! Scheduler is
Hi Gavin! Scheduler is configured on your site; can you tell me what's happening?
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Never mind
ooops! I don't know what's changed, but it used to come back with an error message every time I inputted the date and time for the schedule. Today it seems to have worked -- I'll let you know on the 11th if it blew up in my face.
So far, so good though. Sorry. :P
I tried the scheduler again
I tried the scheduler again recently--didn't get an error message, but it published right away rather than when I told it to. No big deal in that case, but I wish it worked!
Clare, make sure you've got
Clare, make sure you've got the time formatted right, and remember: YOU will be able to see it even when everyone else can't.
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I think I've figured it out.
I think I've figured it out. The only part of the site that knows what time I've set it at is the actual place where I set the time. The whole rest of the site--including stuff further down on that same settings page--thinks it's an hour ahead. So the system thought I was telling it to publish things in the past. I've corrected for the issue, and it looks unpublished now. Hopefully it publishes properly.
aaaaahh...you needed to
aaaaahh...you needed to correct the time for daylight savings. Sadly, it's not automatic.
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The problem is, I DID correct
The problem is, I DID correct for DST. I did so in November. But only the "default time zone" seems to be aware of that--the rest of the site, even the parts on the same page as "default time zone" where I select how the date and time are displayed, have it as an hour in the future.
The last chapter didn't publish when I told it to, either... maybe I'll mess about with the site this weekend and see if I can figure out what works.
Check your own account. You
Check your own account. You may have your own account set to the wrong time.
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Ooh, good thinking! My
Ooh, good thinking! My account was set to the wrong time. Maybe it will work now.
Sigh. I corrected my own
Sigh. I corrected my own account and now the time displays correctly for me, but the scheduling still doesn't work. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm putting in the date and time the same way it says to below the box.
Hm. Your cron job wasn't
Hm. Your cron job wasn't running; I've got that going now. Let's see if that helps.
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Ohhh-kayyyy. I think running
Ohhh-kayyyy. I think running the cron job (what is that, for future reference?) helped--the test posts I'd done before you did that immediately showed up. I did a few more tests and I think now that this is the solution: it posts 45 minutes after I told it to post. Unless I told it to post in the past, of course.
For future references, a
For future references, a "cron job" is an entry that tells the server to do a certain task at a certain time. Drupal has a bunch of things it needs cron to do; all of them are bundled up and run when I call a particular file from your Drupal installation using cron. Once an hour, my cron job calls that file over the web, and your Drupal installation does a bunch of stuff--including publish things you've got in the schedule. I just completely forgot to set up your cron job. I've got everyone's cron jobs set up properly now. Sorry!
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Ooh... so I guess the issue
Ooh... so I guess the issue is not that it publishes 45 minutes after I told it to, but on the informative tests I told it to publish at 15 minutes after the hour, and it can only publish on the hour.
No, not exactly. It'll
No, not exactly. It'll publish on the closest cron run to the time you requested. I have it set to fire once an hour, but the software is automatically staggering so it doesn't fire off a whole bunch of cron requests at once, so I'm not sure the exact moment it goes off. Do you need it to be that granular--down to the minute? Or is close-ish good enough?
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Close-ish is good enough, I
Close-ish is good enough, I just don't know what it's going to be close-ish to.