Add a toggle switch

[MaluNoPeleke]

I would like to have a toggle switch next to my default date field to turn on/off autopublish for the specified date.

[bvdputte]

Unfortunately my vue skills are lacking a bit to set this up.

Maybe it'll be easier when Kirby 3.6 with Fiber lands; and I'll look at it again then.

[MaluNoPeleke]

Okay, thanks for the honest answer and outlook.

[gearsdigital]

@MaluNoPeleke @bvdputte We could utitlize the Conditional Field feature of Kirby with only some small code changes. No Vue knowledge necessary.

I've created a small MR. Lets discuss the feature 😸

[MaluNoPeleke]

Thanks a lot for your support here!
I like your solution and think that it is already an improvement.
To avoid having too many fields for a simple thing the cleanest solution that comes to my mind is that the scheduled date can be set directly in the publishing dialog instead of a field on the page:

This way you can define the date and time for publishing right in the moment when you decide to change the status of the page.
I am not sure if that is technically possible at the moment so I raised it as an idea here: https://kirby.nolt.io/338

[gearsdigital]

Good Morning @MaluNoPeleke,

I'm not certain if this is the right place to handle this process. It hides a quite important part of the user interface and a Editor must know about this feature. You know what I mean?

The (better?) approach could probably be a date range field. So a User can set a range of visibility.

@bvdputte What do you think?

[MaluNoPeleke]

Maybe as I am coming from Ghost CMS it feels natural for me to have the dialog on the status change dialog like this:

I just don't want to pollute the panel page for writing an article with too many fields/tabs and thought the option to schedule a status change would be better located in that dialog.

[bvdputte]

I think we should investigate using the new "dialog" possibilities Kirby Fiber offers us.
Then the "Field" could be just a "textual" resume of when the field will be published etc, and all the heavy lifting will happen in a dialog.

What do you all think?

[MaluNoPeleke]

Sounds like a good solution, looking forward to it :)

[MaluNoPeleke]

By default the created date and the autopublish are always the same (now). This causes the plugin to autopublish every draft as soon as the next cron job runs. It would be great to not autopublish anything as long as you activate the plugin for an article. Therefore a toggle or different integration would be nice.