Scheduled transitions
Publishers, site builders and content admins can schedule transitions so content types automatically move from one moderation state to another.
Scheduled transitions are only available in new Drupal. Note that some content types, like events or scholarships, use a different type of schedule to publish or unpublish.
Moderation states
You can only save your page in a moderation state that your level of access allows. For example, if you're a site editor, you won't be able to schedule a page to save as published.
You can use scheduled transitions to move content types from:
- draft or ready to publish to published
- published to archived, if you want something archived on a specific date.
Timing
Scheduled transitions happen every 15 minutes, so they may not change state at exactly the time you specify. The transitions should run at:
- 8 minutes past the hour
- 23 minutes past the hour
- 38 minutes past the hour
- 53 minutes past the hour.
Avoid using scheduled transitions to publish high-risk content, such as embargoed content. You have more control if you publish your page manually.
Schedule a transition
To create a new scheduled transition:
- create your page and save in 'draft'
- click the 'Scheduled transitions' tab at the top of the page
- click 'Add Scheduled transition'
- ensure the radio button next to the latest revision is selected
- in the 'Execute transition' field, select the moderation state you want your article to transition to
- select the date and time you want the transition to happen
- click 'Schedule transition'.
View scheduled transitions
You can find transitions in progress in the content admin screen.
To find an existing transition:
- hover over 'Content'
- click 'Scheduled transitions'.
You can also see if a transition is scheduled through the 'Scheduled transitions' tab at the top of a page. If it has (1) in the tab title, a transition has been scheduled to run.
Change an existing transition
Changing the time
To edit the time a transition should happen:
- find your scheduled transition in the content admin screen
- choose 'Reschedule' from the 'Operations' dropdown
- enter the new date and time in the 'New execution date' field.
Changing the moderation state
To change the moderation state of a scheduled transition, you'll need to delete the transition and schedule a new transition.
Delete an existing transition
To delete a transition:
- find your scheduled transition in the content admin screen
- choose 'Delete' from the 'Operations' dropdown.