Launch and Expiry of Content

sunil_j

Hi,

I have a requirement where the content should be published onto the webserver at the specified Lanuch Date and similarly some notification should be sent to the content owner should a date reaches the Expiry Date as specified in the Metadata attributes.

I am sure the content expiration can be actioned by a suitable workflow being triggered on the specified date and lot of people must have implemented the same. What I am interested in learning is how the workflow is automatically triggered using the Windows Task Scheduler..? Can I have access to some script that does this sort of notification/triggering ?

Appreciate all your resposes.

Regards
Sunil


TeamSite Consultant

Michael

Hi Sunil

In my experience content expiration alert emails have been sent by a scheduled batch job. Unless you had a specific need there is probably no reason to involve a workflow. One simple way this script might be written is to perform a directory walk over the appropriate staging areas and check the metadata on each file.

Automatically triggering this script can occur using any scheuduling means at your disposal -- Windows Task Scheduler, Unix cron job, 3rd party systems software etc.

hth

Cheers
Michael