Scheduled publishing

#Overview

Hygraph gives you the ability to schedule content publishing, and unpublishing as a one-off, or as a collection (referred to as a "release").

#Terminology

#How to schedule

When editing a content entry, instead of publishing right away, you can Schedule an entry for publishing at a later date & time.

You can find this option inside of the dropdown on the Publish button.

Schedule Item Dropdown

The screen will guide your through the scheduling process, where you can create a one-off scheduled release, or bundle it with other scheduled entries.

Scheduling Options

#Schedule entry only

You can publish (or unpublish) individual content entries at a specified date and time by selecting the Schedule entry only option.

Schedule Item

1. Use the radio buttons to select the Action - if the entry should be published, or unpublished.

   Pro Tip

   If the project has more than the two default stages - PUBLISHED & DRAFT - this section will also show the Stage to publish dropdown, which you can use to select which of the project stages to publish to.

   Stage to publish

   The Unpublish action moves content to the DRAFT stage.

2. Click on the calendar icon under Date and time to select when the entry should be published. Alternatively, you can manually type in the date in the format that's visible in the placeholder of the field.

3. Use the Timezone dropdown to select one of the available timezones.

4. Use the checkboxes to select which localizations should be included. Non-localized fields and the default locale are required here, but you can choose which of the additional locales to publish or unpublish.

5. If you have any references linked to the entry you are scheduling, you can schedule those individually too.

Schedule Related Entries

#Add to an existing release

You can bundle multiple content entries into a single release that will be published (or unpublished) at a specified date and time.

Your releases will be shown if you choose to Add item to a release:

Schedule release

1. Use the Release dropdown to select the release you want to add this entry to.

2. Use the radio buttons to select the Action - if the item should be published, or unpublished.

   Pro Tip

   If the project has more than the two default stages - PUBLISHED & DRAFT - this section will also show the Stage to publish dropdown, which you can use to select which of the project stages to publish to.

   Stage to publish

   The Unpublish action moves content to the DRAFT stage.

3. Use the checkboxes to select which localizations should be included. Non-localized fields and the default locale are required here, but you can choose which of the additional locales to publish or unpublish.

#Add to a new release

You can create a new release to add the current entry to by selecting Add to a new release:

Schedule release

1. Give the new release a Name and, optionally, a Description.

2. Use the radio buttons to select the Action - if the entry should be published, or unpublished.

   Pro Tip

   If the project has more than the two default stages - PUBLISHED & DRAFT - this section will also show the Stage to publish dropdown, which you can use to select which of the project stages to publish to.

   Stage to publish

   The Unpublish action moves content to the DRAFT stage.

3. Click on the calendar icon under Date and time to select when the entry should be published. Alternatively, you can manually type in the date in the format that's visible in the placeholder of the field.

4. Use the Timezone dropdown to select one of the available timezones.

5. Use the checkboxes to select which localizations should be included.

6. If you have any references - such a images - linked to the entry you are scheduling, you can use the checkboxes to schedule those too.

Schedule Related Entries

#Create a release

One of the options, if you want to schedule a group of entries to be published (or unpublished) at the specified day and/or time, is to create a release.

Inside of Releases click on Create release:

Releases overview

Then give it a name, and optional description to continue:

Create release

#Scheduled entries in the content table

Scheduled entries in the content table display a stage pill with a clock on it:

Scheduled entries in the content table

Hovering over the pill will show you schedule publishing information for that entry.

Scheduled entries in the content table

#Limits

• You can have a maximum limit of 50 pending releases, and 50 items in a single release.
• You can have a maximum of 200 pending scheduled items overall within your project environment.