Frequently Asked Questions

Scheduled Publishing Features & Capabilities

What is Scheduled Publishing in Hygraph?

Scheduled Publishing is a feature in Hygraph that allows users to schedule content items to be published or unpublished at a specific date and time in the future. This can be done for individual entries or as part of a bundled release, giving teams flexibility and control over their content operations. [Source]

How does Scheduled Publishing work for individual posts?

With Scheduled Publishing, content teams can plan for content entries to be published or unpublished ahead of time, individually and per locale. This is useful for time-sensitive content like announcements or promotional pages, allowing you to define when an entry should be live without manual intervention. [Source]

What are "bundled" releases in Scheduled Publishing?

"Bundled" releases in Hygraph refer to groups of content items that are scheduled to be published or unpublished together at the same date and time. This helps teams coordinate campaigns or multi-channel launches, such as Black Friday promotions, across multiple touchpoints. [Source]

How many scheduled items or releases can I have in Hygraph?

You can have up to 200 pending scheduled items or releases in total per project environment. Each release can contain up to 50 content entries. [Source]

Can I schedule content for different locales or languages?

Yes, Hygraph allows you to schedule publishing and unpublishing of content per locale, making it easy to manage multi-language or region-specific content launches. [Source]

What are the main benefits of using Scheduled Publishing?

Scheduled Publishing helps teams stay organized, frees up time by allowing content to be created in advance, enables coordinated multi-channel campaigns, and provides transparency with a birds-eye view of all scheduled content. It also reduces manual work and stress for creative teams. [Source]

Is Scheduled Publishing available to all Hygraph users?

Yes, Scheduled Publishing is available to all Hygraph users, with the current limits of 200 pending scheduled items or releases per environment and 50 entries per release. [Source]

How do I get started with Scheduled Publishing?

You can start using Scheduled Publishing by signing up for a free Hygraph account. The feature is automatically available in your project. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the Scheduled Publishing user guide.

Can I schedule both publishing and unpublishing of content?

Yes, Hygraph allows you to schedule both the publishing and unpublishing of content items, either individually or as part of a release. This helps automate content lifecycle management. [Source]

How can I track and analyze scheduled content releases?

Hygraph provides a unified platform view where teams can see all scheduled releases and individual content items, track their progress, and analyze what content resonates with audiences based on release timing. [Source]

What are some common use cases for Scheduled Publishing?

Common use cases include scheduling blog posts for holidays, coordinating multi-channel marketing campaigns, managing content for different locales, and automating the publication of time-sensitive announcements or promotions. [Source]

How does Scheduled Publishing help with global content management?

Scheduled Publishing enables teams to manage content launches across different regions and languages by allowing scheduling per locale and grouping content into releases for coordinated global campaigns. [Source]

Can I use Scheduled Publishing for recurring campaigns?

Yes, you can create multiple releases or schedules to support recurring campaigns, such as seasonal promotions or regular content updates, ensuring consistency and reducing manual work. [Source]

How does Scheduled Publishing improve team collaboration?

Scheduled Publishing creates transparency by providing release overviews and allowing all team members to see what content is scheduled, when it will go live, and who is responsible, improving coordination and reducing confusion. [Source]

Is there a way to preview scheduled content before it goes live?

Hygraph supports live preview features, allowing teams to review scheduled content before publication to ensure accuracy and quality. [Source]

How does Scheduled Publishing fit with other Hygraph features?

Scheduled Publishing integrates seamlessly with other Hygraph features like content federation, localization, asset management, and workflow tools, enabling comprehensive content operations from a single platform. [Source]

Where can I find documentation or tutorials for Scheduled Publishing?

Official documentation and tutorials for Scheduled Publishing are available in the Scheduled Publishing user guide and on the Hygraph Documentation site.

Can I provide feedback or get support for Scheduled Publishing?

Yes, you can share feedback and get support by joining the Hygraph community on Slack at slack.hygraph.com or by contacting Hygraph support. [Source]

Does Scheduled Publishing support content versioning?

Hygraph supports version retention features, allowing you to keep track of content changes and revert if needed. The level of version retention depends on your pricing plan. [Source]

Pricing & Plans

What does the Hobby plan cost?

The Hobby plan is free forever and is ideal for individuals working on personal projects or exploring Hygraph. It includes 2 locales, 3 seats, 2 standard roles, 10 components, unlimited asset storage, and more. [Source]

What features are included in the Growth plan?

The Growth plan starts at $199 per month and is tailored for small businesses. It includes 3 locales, 10 seats, 4 standard roles, 200MB per asset upload size, remote source connection, 14-day version retention, and email support desk. [Source]

What does the Enterprise plan offer?

The Enterprise plan offers custom pricing and is designed for businesses needing dedicated support, advanced governance, and scalability. It includes custom limits, scheduled publishing, dedicated infrastructure, SSO, multitenancy, instant backup recovery, custom workflows, and dedicated support. [Source]

Is Scheduled Publishing included in all pricing plans?

Scheduled Publishing is available to all Hygraph users, but advanced features and higher limits may be available on Growth and Enterprise plans. [Source]

Technical Requirements & Integrations

What integrations does Hygraph support?

Hygraph supports integrations with popular Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems like Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Imgix, Mux, and Scaleflex Filerobot, as well as other tools like Adminix and Plasmic. Developers can also build custom integrations using the SDK or connect external APIs via REST and GraphQL. [Source]

Does Hygraph provide APIs for content management?

Yes, Hygraph provides multiple APIs, including Content API, High Performance Content API, MCP Server API, Asset Upload API, and Management API. These APIs support querying, mutating, uploading, and managing content and assets. [Source]

Where can I find technical documentation for Hygraph?

Comprehensive technical documentation is available at hygraph.com/docs, covering APIs, schema components, references, webhooks, and AI integrations.

Security & Compliance

What security certifications does Hygraph have?

Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (since August 3rd, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant, ensuring high standards for security and data protection. [Source]

How does Hygraph ensure data security and compliance?

Hygraph uses ISO 27001-certified providers, encrypts data at rest and in transit, offers granular permissions, audit logs, SSO integrations, regular backups, and provides a process for reporting incidents. [Source]

Use Cases & Business Impact

Who can benefit from using Hygraph?

Hygraph is designed for developers, product managers, content creators, marketing professionals, and solutions architects in enterprises, agencies, eCommerce, media, technology, and global brands. [Source]

What industries use Hygraph?

Industries represented in Hygraph's case studies include SaaS, marketplace, education technology, media and publication, healthcare, consumer goods, automotive, technology, fintech, travel, food and beverage, eCommerce, agency, online gaming, events, government, consumer electronics, engineering, and construction. [Source]

What business impact can I expect from using Hygraph?

Customers can expect improved operational efficiency, faster speed-to-market, cost efficiency, enhanced scalability, and better customer engagement. For example, Komax achieved a 3X faster time-to-market, and Samsung improved customer engagement by 15%. [Source]

Can you share some customer success stories?

Yes, notable success stories include Samsung building a scalable API-first application, Komax achieving 3X faster time-to-market, AutoWeb increasing website monetization by 20%, and Voi scaling multilingual content across 12 countries. [Source]

Competition & Differentiation

How does Hygraph compare to traditional CMS platforms?

Hygraph is the first GraphQL-native Headless CMS, offering simplified schema evolution, content federation, and seamless integration with modern tech stacks. Unlike traditional CMS platforms that rely on REST APIs, Hygraph enables more flexible and scalable content management. [Source]

What makes Hygraph different from other headless CMS solutions?

Hygraph stands out with its GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, user-friendly tools, enterprise-grade features, and proven ROI. It ranked 2nd out of 102 Headless CMSs in the G2 Summer 2025 report and was voted the easiest to implement headless CMS for the fourth time. [Source]

How does Hygraph address common pain points in content management?

Hygraph eliminates developer dependency, modernizes legacy tech stacks, ensures content consistency, improves workflows, reduces costs, accelerates speed-to-market, and simplifies integration with third-party systems. [Source]

Why should I choose Hygraph over other CMS platforms?

Hygraph offers unique advantages such as GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, enterprise-grade features, user-friendly tools, scalability, and a track record of customer success and industry recognition. [Source]

Introducing Click to Edit

Introducing Scheduled Publishing

Publish content at a specific time and date in the future individually or bundled within a release.
Alexandra Buckalew
Bruno Scheufler
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Written by Alexandra, Bruno, Julian & 3 more 

Nov 12, 2021
introducing scheduled publishing

There are many use-cases in which changes to content stages need to be planned for in advance. To ensure that content operations proceed smoothly, Hygraph now offers the ability to schedule publishing and unpublishing your content.

#Introducing Scheduled Publishing

Scheduled Publishing has landed at Hygraph. All Hygraph users now have the ability to schedule their content items to be published or unpublished in the future. Additionally, users can create releases to bundle items that should be published or unpublished at the same time. This new feature will automatically be available in your Hygraph project.

Content can be part of multiple individual schedules or releases, making sure that you can build up a cadence. Examples for this would be scheduling the publishing and the unpublishing of content in advance, or releasing different localizations at different times.

Explore the Scheduled Publishing user guide →

#Scheduled Publishing in Hygraph

Scheduled Publishing is a powerful tool that gives both individual users and content teams control and flexibility over their content with the ability to plan in advance. With Hygraph’s new feature, users can publish in two different ways: publishing entries individually, or tie content pieces together as part of a release.

#Scheduling Individual Posts

Content scheduling modal to automate publishing with specific date, time, and timezone settings

Scheduled items allow content teams to plan for content entries being published (or unpublished) ahead of time, individually, and per locale.

Taking a common scenario, if teams are planning to post or unpublished an announcement tied to a date (such as a Christmas blog post, or a promotional landing page), they have the option to define the time periods for when this entry should be in a certain stage, and avoid needing to manually update them every time a change is required.

#Scheduling "bundled" Releases

Schedule item modal displaying the option to add content to a release group like a Christmas Promotion

Releases are what Hygraph calls content bundles that should be released at the same date and time. The release section of the Hygraph project gives users a birds-eye view over all the content that will go out tied to that release on a particular date, and a few ways that users and teams can group content according to a particular posting strategy.

Let’s take a common content-heavy example like Black Friday. Content and advertising teams can create different timed-release bundles in advance according to their promotional strategy as there are different needs of communication starting well in advance of the actual Black Friday promotion.

Releases allow teams to map content to launch in parallel with external promotions like commercials, other digital or traditional media buys or promotions. While grouping within a release dictates the publication date and time, teams can also create multiple releases based on content type, locale, and language, ensuring teams can manage content globally without being tied to their computers.

Content Releases dashboard listing grouped publication schedules like "Christmas Promotion" with status indicators

Releases have many other benefits for teams including:

  • The ability to schedule campaigns or promotions across multiple touchpoints like website, social media, and more without being tied to their computers upon launch.
  • Stay organized by giving teams a birds-eye view over all content going out in a release in one unified platform view.
  • Free up time to focus on other aspects of the business by creating content months in advance.
  • Analyze content easier with the ability to map exactly when content went out, track each item's progress from a defined date, and understand what content resonates with your audience.
  • Depending on the industry, Scheduled Publishing can also help audiences remain engaged with new content set to release on a particular schedule.
  • Relieves stress on creative teams, as users can create in advance or whenever available.
  • Creates transparency internally. Teams can see release overviews or individually scheduled content pieces, so everyone can better understand what has been done and when content is going out.

The Fine Print

Scheduled Publishing is available to all Hygraph users, but with certain restrictions for now. Overall, you can have up to 200 pending scheduled items or releases in total in your project per environment. Each Release can have up to 50 content entries within them.

Sign up for a free Hygraph account to take Scheduled Publishing for a spin and share your feedback with us by joining our community→

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