Scheduling publish / unpublish

Heres a real left field question

Is there anyway to give chunks a publish an unpublished date? I want to put items on a page at a set time but don’t want to have to log in to do.

I know I could probably use a normal page and something like NewsListing list them, however each chunk would only have 4 lines of plain text and sometimes a right justified image.

It would be more work setting the page details that I don’t need like titles etc, than it would be copy and past the text into each chunk / page.

The page in questions is the course calender http://www.emanz.ac.nz/calander.html. Each course date would be a chunk listed under the month on the page.

Then as course dates pass the chunk would be removed, I cold also set futire course dates that aren’t yet advertised

That’s a cool idea to be filed for future purposes... can you ’track it please?

Yeah I like the idea too !

So simple we didnt think of it... they say simplicity is powerful, and I agree

Templates should just be chunks that contain other chunks and all the "meta data" should apply to them. Or, I should say, chunks should disappear and all we have left are templates... people get that and it’s been discussed quite a bit.

Not saying it’s not
It’s the way I use them, especially since I come from textpattern which works just the same way...

Just having publish/unpublish for chunk opens new possibilies, is all I am saying

oh... i totally agree... killer concept.

Sweet, added to Flyspray. Put as Low Priority.. but sooner the better lol

Nice idea, and thanks for adding it to the tracker.

Hope it will be added in the roadmap for future release.

I really need that feature! I’m trying to replace a commercial CMS that does that - it’s a really useful function - you can leave the site to tidy itself up. Please re-prioritise it! Go on, you know you want to...

Couldn’t a TV with @DOCUMENT do the same thing? And have the document contain the chunk? The TV should check for the publish/unpublish date, I don’t know if it does that now. Kind of a kludge, but if the TV does check for a document’s publish/unpublish date when using @DOCUMENT it would fill in until the core feature is added to chunks.