Whats the point of a Publish date field if its not used?

I’ve noticed that when I create and save a document, the Publish date (as found in the "Page Settings") is never filled.

What’s the point of a Publish date field if its not used?

How do you make it auto-update when the document is saved, or is it reliant upon a Document status field (ie: Publish, Draft, Private, etc)?

Thanks.

The publish and unpuplish dates are there for autmated (un)publishing at the given date/time.

Greetz
JUSI

How do you make the Publish date pick up the date on save?

I don’t know if this is possible.
It’s intended to be set manually to a date/time in the future to be published then.

Greetz
JUSI

If you click on the calendar icon in the publish input field, and then click the highlighted day on the calendar (it should be the current date and will show the time at the bottom by default) it will populate the publish field.

Quote from: worchyld at Oct 15, 2009, 09:29 AM

How do you make the Publish date pick up the date on save?

One way is by using ManagerManager,
function mm_default("pub_date")

ManagerManager let you set pub_date as default value


Provides a default value for specific fields in new documents / folders.

Another SUPER awesome plugin -> http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,36558

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I installed ManagerManager, and I tested the mm_rules.inc.php to rename the introtext to "Summary of article" -- this works fine.

However, when I do:



The published date field is never filled with any date at all, even when I save it.

How do I get the published date to display the date inside the text box?

Quote from: worchyld at Oct 19, 2009, 05:27 AM

The published date field is never filled with any date at all, even when I save it.
How do I get the published date to display the date inside the text box?

Try it with role specified:


It works here...

IIRC there is a separate publishedon field (in the db) that is non-settable that actually takes the date on which a document is set to published. It is not the same as pub_date which is to be used for delayed automatic publishing of documents.

In any event it is cool that you can accomplish this using ManagerManager. This could prove to be very useful.