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Automatically release or hide a page on a future date and time.

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Content Flow makes it possible for content creators to set the time and date for when a page should be released for visibility by everyone. This makes it easy to roll out new articles or event pages or documentation in a coordinated fashion. Similarly, teams can write content early in the year and then create a month-by-month release schedule.

This guide walks you through the steps to set up a page for an automated future publish date.

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Navigate to the desired page

Scheduling is set up on a per-page basis. For every page that you want scheduled, use these steps. (By scheduling a page, that page becomes a scheduled page, natch!)

Open the

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Confluence Page Tools Menu

Click the ellipsis button and select 'Schedule Page'

Enter a "Release On" date and time

Use the Date-picker and Time-picker dropdowns to select a publishing date and time, respectively Release Time. Note that these dates are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). relative to your Confluence timezone setting. (Need to Change your Timezone?). The page will be published released on this date at that time.

Note that if there is a workflow activated on the page, there are some viewing restriction implications that you should be aware of Between setting up a workflow and the publication date, the page will be hidden from all but those with editing privileges (If a Publishing Workflow is on the page, then its reviewers will still be able to view and edit the page).

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Enter a "Hide On" date and time

Use the Date-picker and Time-picker dropdowns to select a publishing Hide Time. As with Release Time, the date and time , respectively. Note that these dates are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). are based on your timezone setting. The page will be hidden (removed from view, or essentially un-published) on  on this date at that time. Only the person who set this schedule will be able to view and edit the page following a "Hide On" date.

Click save

Click save

By entering the Release Time and Hide Time, you have created a scheduled window for this scheduled page. Now sit back and let the Content Flow Publisher do the work for you!


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