Ticket #665 (closed defect: wontfix)
"Published on" is really creation time
| Reported by: | reppep | Owned by: | xave |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | module:blog | Version: | 2.1 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
When I start a post on one day, and publish it on a later day, the blog and Dashboard show the creation date as "Published on". The creation date is interesting, and some people might prefer that (in which case the label is wrong), but I really want the later publication date.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by xave
- Owner changed from olivier to xave
- Status changed from new to assigned
- Milestone changed from 2.2 to 2.1.6
comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by xave
- Status changed from assigned to closed
- Resolution set to invalid
It's not the creation date (that one is recorded in the database) it's the "official" publication date, upon wich you have complete control (you can write posts dated from the past if you wish to record an event after the fact or in the future so as to use the "cron" feature.) It's up to the user to quickly launch the datepicker to update the date.
comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by reppep
That's the problem. If it's supposed to be publication date, it should not be set to first save, as that's *not* publication date. Set it when publishing, if it's not manually set before then.
Right now, if the user doesn't override it, it's the first-save date, and has no connection to publication date, unless the user never saves before publication.
comment:4 Changed 16 years ago by xave
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Resolution invalid deleted
- Milestone 2.1.6 deleted
I need to think about it, because it would imply a rewrite of the underlyiong database schema ...
comment:5 Changed 16 years ago by reppep
Whether or not you modify the database, the user-visible labels should be corrected to match reality.
comment:6 Changed 16 years ago by xave
That's exactly why it has deeper implications. How do you decide what the publication date should be? When you change the status from "pending" to published or from anything to "published? Should it be reset when put it offline? Also there is no means to enter an empty date in a date field, and no simple way to differentiate an unpublished entry from a "has already be published but is no more" one, though no way with the current entry field to choose wether or not to display the date.
I see your point, but I will not do such a change without careful planning.
comment:7 Changed 14 years ago by bruno
- Priority changed from low to normal
- Severity changed from minor to normal
comment:8 Changed 13 years ago by franck
- Status changed from reopened to onhold
“When I start a post on one day, and publish it on a later day, the blog and Dashboard show the creation date as "Published on".”
Right.
“The creation date is interesting, and some people might prefer that (in which case the label is wrong), but I really want the later publication date.”
In this case juste remind to click to the datepicker icon and the ! button to update the publication date. It's all.
Don't forget that this publication date may have a legal purpose for a publisher.