Scheduled Posts - The Challenge Continues
Saturday, May 30, 2015
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One Blogger feature, that is occasionally mentioned inward Blogger Help Forum: Get Help alongside an Issue, is the number of scheduling postal service publication.
Setting upwards a scheduled postal service is extremely uncomplicated - in addition to that may last business office of the problem. Before yous unwrap a post, yous hand the postal service a published appointment / fourth dimension that occurs inward the future. The postal service appointment / fourth dimension becomes the scheduled posting appointment / time.
And at that spot is where i possible problem, alongside scheduled posts, may start. Long ago, when scheduled posts were starting fourth dimension introduced, the sorcerer for setting the appointment in addition to fourth dimension was rather simple.
Since this is a novel post, I tin hand notice expect nether "Post settings", to the right, in addition to encounter the "Schedule" option. If I expand "Schedule", I tin hand notice encounter the selected default of "Automatic". If I select "Set appointment in addition to time", the fun begins.
Do yous encounter the clever GUI design, inward the "Schedule" sorcerer - every bit it is, right now?
The appointment / fourth dimension wizard, when Schedule Posts was starting fourth dimension introduced, was really simple.
When the Scheduled Posts characteristic was starting fourth dimension introduced, "Date" in addition to "Time" was exactly ii empty boxes, alongside no hint of what to seat into the boxes. Add to that the certainty that some people might come inward either the appointment or fourth dimension "wrong", in addition to yous would larn oddities.
Blogger fixed the starting fourth dimension identified problems - in addition to caused novel problems.
After nosotros identified the possible problems alongside scheduled posts, Blogger removed the appointment box, in addition to replaced it alongside the calendar. This forced people to encounter in addition to laid the date, using the calendar display.
If yous tin hand notice read a calendar, yous tin hand notice laid the calendar month correctly.
But - does that solve the problem?
The calendar selected appointment worked great, for posts dorsum or forrad dated exclusively a few days or weeks. You could select whatever appointment inward the electrical flow calendar month - or page backwards or forwards a calendar month or two, in addition to select a date. And the employment alongside people entering the appointment "wrong" was solved, alongside everybody able to encounter the month, in addition to select a day.
Everybody did non appreciate the solution.
The calendar did non delight everybody. People who had to change the appointment to a greater extent than than a calendar month or two complained, because they had to sit down at that spot in addition to click - click - click i calendar month at a time, to select a calendar month far inward the past times or future.
Blogger in addition to hence tried what nosotros have, today.
So Blogger created a hybrid sorcerer - the appointment in addition to fourth dimension are both type inward fields - in addition to the appointment tin hand notice last selected using a calendar. And when the appointment is typed. the calendar changes, to signal the calendar month typed.
Does everybody, typing inward the date, to schedule postal service publication, ever expect at the calendar - or the resulting Schedule appointment / time?
This is the electrical flow appointment / fourth dimension wizard.
How tin hand notice this non work?
See below, for discussion.
We possess got type inward fields for date, in addition to for fourth dimension - in addition to below that, the months calendar, alongside "today" highlighted - in addition to controls, to select the previous or side past times side month.
It's at nowadays 4:00 PM. Why practice nosotros withal encounter "2:49 PM"?
My suspicion is that some people who type inward the appointment may brand a error - in addition to non ever grab the mistake. I'll also bet that this employment exists, inward larger book than is reported - but exclusively a few people encounter it. Most people move postal service scheduling every bit a convenience. How many schedule a post, in addition to hence stick roughly to sentinel it publish?
You compose your post, yous schedule your postal service - in addition to hence you're gone. You come upwards back, former later, in addition to it's published. Do yous know, for a fact, that it published on the instant - or the appointment - scheduled?
I'm also wondering how scheduled posts are published, inward full general - but that may last a dependent area for some other post, later. Right now, the interrogation is how to ensure postal service schedule dates tin hand notice last accurately typed, to eliminate misscheduled posts.
And too people who don't come inward appointment / fourth dimension correctly, there's people who never intend to hitting "Publish" - in addition to hence sentinel every bit "scheduled" publication fourth dimension comes in addition to goes, alongside the postal service withal inward Draft state.
Setting upwards a scheduled postal service is extremely uncomplicated - in addition to that may last business office of the problem. Before yous unwrap a post, yous hand the postal service a published appointment / fourth dimension that occurs inward the future. The postal service appointment / fourth dimension becomes the scheduled posting appointment / time.
And at that spot is where i possible problem, alongside scheduled posts, may start. Long ago, when scheduled posts were starting fourth dimension introduced, the sorcerer for setting the appointment in addition to fourth dimension was rather simple.
Since this is a novel post, I tin hand notice expect nether "Post settings", to the right, in addition to encounter the "Schedule" option. If I expand "Schedule", I tin hand notice encounter the selected default of "Automatic". If I select "Set appointment in addition to time", the fun begins.
Do yous encounter the clever GUI design, inward the "Schedule" sorcerer - every bit it is, right now?
The appointment / fourth dimension wizard, when Schedule Posts was starting fourth dimension introduced, was really simple.
When the Scheduled Posts characteristic was starting fourth dimension introduced, "Date" in addition to "Time" was exactly ii empty boxes, alongside no hint of what to seat into the boxes. Add to that the certainty that some people might come inward either the appointment or fourth dimension "wrong", in addition to yous would larn oddities.
- Posts scheduled for futurity publication, when intentionally backdated.
- Posts published immediately, alongside dorsum dates, when intentionally scheduled for futurity publication.
- Posts scheduled, but at the "wrong" time.
- Posts that never published, because the unwrap appointment / fourth dimension was far inward the future.
- Now that yous encounter the problem, I bet yous tin hand notice intend of to a greater extent than scenarios.
Blogger fixed the starting fourth dimension identified problems - in addition to caused novel problems.
After nosotros identified the possible problems alongside scheduled posts, Blogger removed the appointment box, in addition to replaced it alongside the calendar. This forced people to encounter in addition to laid the date, using the calendar display.
If yous tin hand notice read a calendar, yous tin hand notice laid the calendar month correctly.
But - does that solve the problem?
The calendar selected appointment worked great, for posts dorsum or forrad dated exclusively a few days or weeks. You could select whatever appointment inward the electrical flow calendar month - or page backwards or forwards a calendar month or two, in addition to select a date. And the employment alongside people entering the appointment "wrong" was solved, alongside everybody able to encounter the month, in addition to select a day.
Everybody did non appreciate the solution.
The calendar did non delight everybody. People who had to change the appointment to a greater extent than than a calendar month or two complained, because they had to sit down at that spot in addition to click - click - click i calendar month at a time, to select a calendar month far inward the past times or future.
Blogger in addition to hence tried what nosotros have, today.
So Blogger created a hybrid sorcerer - the appointment in addition to fourth dimension are both type inward fields - in addition to the appointment tin hand notice last selected using a calendar. And when the appointment is typed. the calendar changes, to signal the calendar month typed.
Does everybody, typing inward the date, to schedule postal service publication, ever expect at the calendar - or the resulting Schedule appointment / time?
This is the electrical flow appointment / fourth dimension wizard.
How tin hand notice this non work?
See below, for discussion.
We possess got type inward fields for date, in addition to for fourth dimension - in addition to below that, the months calendar, alongside "today" highlighted - in addition to controls, to select the previous or side past times side month.
It's at nowadays 4:00 PM. Why practice nosotros withal encounter "2:49 PM"?
My suspicion is that some people who type inward the appointment may brand a error - in addition to non ever grab the mistake. I'll also bet that this employment exists, inward larger book than is reported - but exclusively a few people encounter it. Most people move postal service scheduling every bit a convenience. How many schedule a post, in addition to hence stick roughly to sentinel it publish?
You compose your post, yous schedule your postal service - in addition to hence you're gone. You come upwards back, former later, in addition to it's published. Do yous know, for a fact, that it published on the instant - or the appointment - scheduled?
I'm also wondering how scheduled posts are published, inward full general - but that may last a dependent area for some other post, later. Right now, the interrogation is how to ensure postal service schedule dates tin hand notice last accurately typed, to eliminate misscheduled posts.
And too people who don't come inward appointment / fourth dimension correctly, there's people who never intend to hitting "Publish" - in addition to hence sentinel every bit "scheduled" publication fourth dimension comes in addition to goes, alongside the postal service withal inward Draft state.