Document autodelete when the date has expired

Hey everyone.

I have this problem. I’m creating sort of calendar to my page. I know how to use ditto to make few future events to show where ever I want, BUT . . How can I make a document delete itself automatically when the current date has passed???
I’m sure this is a simple problem, but somehow I can’t find anything written about it.

I don’t think that you can auto delete documents (without using some sort of custom script and a cron to execute at a specified interval). However you can use the unpublish date to schedule for the document to become unpublished and keep it off the site.

Personally, I wouldn’t want it deleted, just hidden from the views where I show the current events. I created an xPDO-based calendar system that does this in the view snippet via a configuration or query string parameter; I’m sure you can do the same thing with regular documents and Ditto simply by limiting the Ditto output by date. Then you’re past events could be shown in a separate view, a.k.a. an archive.

This is partly what I am trying to achieve with the plugin I am working out over here:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,19893.0.html

I have managed to get the data from the TV event_date which is a unixtime timestamp. I hope to be able to have the plugin automatically set the unpub_date so that it no longer appears on the front end. It may require addition of a function to hide the documents or move them to another folder in the tree.

Hope this helps.

Jay