Define the action properties of the scheduled move action.
- Select the Date Type to use to trigger
the scheduled move.
- Selected date
- This action is run once the date and time you have specified in
step 2 is reached.
- Live date
- This action is run once the publish date specified in an item,
plus any offset, is reached.
- Expiry Date
- This action is run once the expiry date specified in an item,
plus any offset, is reached.
- General dates
- This action is run once either the general date one or two specified
in an item, plus any offset, is reached.
- Date entered stage
- This action is run on the date the item entered the current stage,
plus any offset, is reached.
Note: If you select a date type that requires
a date to be set by a user, and no date has been set by a user, then
the action is not run regardless of whether an offset has been selected
or not.
- If Selected date is selected as
the date type:
- Click
to select a date.
- Click
to enter a time. Only the integers "0123456789" can be used
when entering times.
- If you select one of the other options, you can choose
to use a date offset which will run the scheduled move based on a
period of time after the selected date type. For example, if you select
the date type of "Live date" and define an offset of one month, the
scheduled move action is run exactly one month after the item reached
the live date and time.
- Click Enable Offset.
- Enter the number of months, days, hours, or minutes
to offset by.
- Select either "after specified date" or "before specified
date".
- If you select either "Months" or "Days" you can also
specify the time of day to run the action by selecting Time
to run action after offset has been reached. For example,
if you select one month plus 9 am, then the action will run at 9 am,
one month after the selected date type is reached.
- In some circumstances, the date specified in the scheduled
action may have already been reached when an item enters a stage.
In this case, by default the action is automatically run as soon the
item reaches the current stage. You can choose to not run the action
if the date has already been reached by selecting Do not
run the action if date has already been reached.
The process of publishing and expiring items: When a scheduled move action also triggers a published
or expired action, it does not mean that the item has become published
or expired. A status of published or expired instead means that the
process of publishing or expiring an item has begun. The actual time
a published item appears on a website, or the time an expired item
is removed from a website, also depends on:
- how long it takes to syndicate updates to the delivery server.
- how long it takes for the current cache to expire.