I tried out the new Scheduling feature that allows you to schedule an article for publication. It worked like a charm, except that I didn’t realize I had to set the time zone every single time.
So, my articles still had to be published manually for two reasons.
- I didn't set the correct time zone on each article.
- I couldn’t find the articles that were scheduled to be published.
I would propose the following additional features to make the scheduling feature even better:
- A setting for a default time zone for scheduling articles to be published or unpublished.
- A filter for scheduled articles so they can be found easily.
- A way to update the schedule on multiple articles at once, including removing the schedule. Imagine that your software release does not go as planned and is rolled back. The tech writer now has to find each scheduled article and fix the schedule one at a time. In my last release, that would have meant updating 179 articles.