Looking for something which was easy in Drupal 7, but can't find it or can't get it to work in Drupal 8.
- import feed
- do not publish content immediately
- run a rule that sets the content to publish every Wednesday at 18.00 (6 PM)
Any suggestions how to do this in Drupal 8?
I've tried:
- https://www.drupal.org/project/scheduled_publish
- https://www.drupal.org/project/scheduled_updates
- https://www.drupal.org/project/moderation_scheduler
- https://www.drupal.org/project/scheduler
- https://www.drupal.org/project/business_rules
- https://www.drupal.org/project/rules (seemed obvious I already tried that)
- and other stuff that I already forgot since I've been trying this for several weeks now ...
And only Scheduler came close (as I used it in Drupal 7).
Where does it fail? When making the rule (after saving new content ...):
- it does not allow me to use 'wednesday 18:00' but instead I need to use a 'unix timestamp', which means I need to change it every week
- and even if I use a 'unix timestamp' the 'schedule options' tab stays blank (if I insert a date when manually creating the content it works)
After testing the business rules module for two days I'm starting to suspect the problem is Drupal itself: it's simply not excepting anything except unix timestamps.
I tried making a field with php code to calculate 'wednesday 18:00', tried it with strotime, ... all to no avail. I have some hope this could still work, but my coding skills are to limited.
So ... any other options? (I'm not a developer, can't build custom modules.)
hook_cronto fetch all unpublished node IDs weekly and then pass them to a QueueWorker (Queue API) to publish them.