Scheduling

Set a Schedule

To schedule content to go live at a future date, do the following:

1. Click the Calendar Icon next to the publish button to open the calendar
2. Select the appropriate Date/Time
3. Click Set. The Publish button turns to a Schedule button.
4. Click Schedule

Once you've scheduled a change, it will be listed in the revisions module in the right sidebar, as well as in the dashboard widget. You can edit revisions by clicking on the revision link in the sidebar or the dashboard widget. You'll see a banner at the top of the page showing you that you're editing a scheduled revision.

Set Multiple Schedules

If you're viewing a scheduled revision but want to modify it to create a new scheduled revision, change the dropdown from Update Existing Schedule to Create New Schedule and follow the instructions above for setting a schedule. This will allow you to add more than one scheduled revision on a piece of content.

Schedule Multiple Items in One Future Revision

Brightspot Schedule Events widget also allows the capability to do a bulk schedule. A bulk schedule is the ability to schedule multiple pieces of content to be published on a certain future date. 

To do a bulk schedule, complete the following

1. Go to Dashboard’s Scheduled Events Widget and click New
2. Set the New Schedule options in the resulting window
   
   1. The Trigger Date is the date when all events associated with this schedule are published
3. A message bar will appear at the top of the CMS
4. Create a new item or edit an existing one, and Schedule the content. The Schedule button will replace the Publish button in Schedule mode.
5. Return to the dashboard, and you will see a new event appeared in the Dashboard
6. Continue publishing content as described in the previous steps. The Schedule Events Widget reflects all the of the events scheduled for the publication for the bulk schedule
7. To stop publishing with the bulk schedule, click Stop Scheduling in the message bar at the top of the CMS

Remove (expire) content

If you want content to be removed at a certain time, you can use the Expiration tab at the top of the page where you edit that content.

Dashboard Widget

The Scheduled Events widget shows content set to go live at a future date. Each day has a section, with any content due to go live on that day visible. This widget gives editors the ability to complete two main tasks:

• View scheduled content
• Click into scheduled content to edit.