Can we unpublish and then publish again (automatically)?

pixelstuff · May 31, 2020, 12:40am

I have some currently published pages – that run a slide show – which I want to be able to unpublish at a certain time, then a few hours later republish them.

I was hoping I could automate this a few days in advance by simultaneously setting an unpublish date and then a publish-on date which comes after the unpublish date. MODx doesn’t seem to allow this and automatically unpublishes the document if the publish-on field is filled in.

Is there a setting to disable the automatic unpublish action?
Is there a reason this hand-holding needs to be there? Would publishing a currently published document cause a problem in the database?
If not, can we consider this a bug that needs fixing?

Is there a way to work around this?

bruno17 · May 31, 2020, 11:59am

maybe you could create a plugin at OnResourceAutoPublish and set the appropriate values

bruno17 · May 31, 2020, 12:01pm

here is, where it happens:

github.com

modxcms/revolution/blob/70518eb6758ab7836defc98dd3dd4113fa04ec83/core/model/modx/modcachemanager.class.php#L631


    return (array_search(false, $results, true) === false);
}

/**
 * Check for and process Resources with pub_date or unpub_date set to now or in past.
 *
 * @todo Implement Context-isolated auto-publishing.
 * @param array $options An array of options for the process.
 * @return array An array containing published and unpublished Resource counts.
 */
public function autoPublish(array $options = array()) {
    $publishingResults= array();
    $tblResource= $this->modx->getTableName('modResource');
    $timeNow= time();

    /* generate list of resources that are going to be published */
    $stmt = $this->modx->prepare("SELECT id, context_key, pub_date, unpub_date FROM {$tblResource} WHERE pub_date IS NOT NULL AND pub_date < {$timeNow} AND pub_date > 0");
    if ($stmt->execute()) {
        $publishingResults['published_resources'] = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    }