Schedule event to take place any time?

Hi,

Scenario:
Clock is now 11:00. We have an announcement which have to be submitted and deployed at 15:20. Editor fills announcement's DCT and puts value 15:20 in the "Publish time" field . After filling DCT editor saves DCR, generates html page and logouts from the TeamSite.

Question:
Is it possible to schedule submitting and deploying to take place at 15:20 based on that publish time value in the DCR? There can be hundreds of announcements in the workarea, which already are in the STAGING and in the website and some announcements are waiting submitting.

-mika

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Adam Stoller

Is it possible - yes.
Is it something that can be explained briefly in a forum-wide post in a way that works specificly in your environment - not really (though I'm sure there will be attempts - as below).
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1) you can use the OpenDeploy scheduler in 5.x to schedule a specific deployment to occur at a specific time.
2) you can use some process to trace down all the pending deployments and then to kick off deployments for them when they're ready - or in combination with '1' (above), schedule them via OpenDeploy's iwodschedadd CLT
3) you can put release scheduling into a DB (using the file pathnames as unique ids) and then perform a query for all files that need to be released at a certain time and then, like '2' and/or '1' (above) kick off or schedule a deployment for the appropriate time.
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It is definitely possible - the specifics of your environment and requirements have a lot to do with *how* it gets implemented though - and that's generally asking for significant "free consulting".

If you figure out the basics of your environment and how you want to implement this and get most of it functional but run into specific problems - that's a bit easier to help diagnose within these forums.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

nipper

Fish did a good job of explaining how you could do it. One thing you need to determine is should yo do it. Keep in mind you are likely deploying an untested configuration since you will test with the STAGING area but not deploy everything in the staging area.

So you add a PR using a new image or stylesheet I submitted to staging. Guess what, it works great in staging and breaks in prod. Ouch.

You can design around this senerio and if this is a requirement, you should (branching is a good thing here) but expand your thought, when you try this.

Andy