Problem with NewsPublisher

Have I gone nuts?

The NewsPublisher form from the tutorial puts the following line on the screen:

"Note: Leaving the Publish Date empty will immediately publish your news entry."

But there’s no place to enter a Publish Date.

I desperately need the web user to be able to enter both a Publish and an Unpublish date. Is there a more
recent version of the form chunk that includes these?

If not, can someone suggest how to add them to the current form?

*** Here’s the form from the NewsPublisher tutorial. There appears to be no code at all for handling publication dates:

div id="blogForm">
<form name="NewsPublisher" method="post" action="[~[*id*]~]">
<fieldset>
<h3>Publishing Details</h3>
<p>Note: Leaving the Publish Date empty will immediately publish your blog entry.</p>
<input name="NewsPublisherForm" type="hidden" value="on" />
<label for="pagetitle">Page title <abbr title="The title used on the browser window">?</abbr>: <input name="pagetitle" id="pagetitle" type="text" size="40" value="[+pagetitle+]" /></label>
<label for="longtitle">Headline <abbr title="The title used on the article">?</abbr>: <input name="longtitle" id="longtitle" type="text" size="40" value="[+longtitle+]" /></label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<h3>The Content</h3>
<p>The Summary field is optional, but is used as a short version for RSS feeds and summary views on the main blog page.</p>
<label for="introtext">Summary (optional, but encouraged):<textarea name="introtext" cols="50" rows="5">[+introtext+]</textarea></label>
<label for="content">Content:[*blogContent*]</label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<h3>You’re Done</h3>
<input name="send" type="submit" value="Blog it!" class="button" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>


Bob

I found that although the tutorial involves creating a custom chunk and TV. The NewsPublisher Snippet has a built-in form with publish and unpublish dates built in. It executes if you just put [[NewsPublisher]] in the code with no variables.

Someone should probably remove the note about publish date in the NewsPublisher tutorial.

My guess is that the tutorial used to include the publish/unpublish dates but the Javascript calendar didn’t work right (didn’t work for me when I tried pasting the form code into the chunk created in the tutorial) so they were removed them and whoever did it forgot to take out the note.

Bob