Set publishing date when creating blog post

martin_7indc4

I have seen a lot of buzz around this topic before. Some people seem to want to go back and set the date of an already published blogpost. Some would like to set publishing times in the future. All sources tells me that I cannot set the date on an already published post, but I'd be very happy to be able to set it when creating the post.

However I cannot find out how to do it, much less if it is possible at all.

I'd like to move my blogposts from a server instance to our cloud instance. And I'd like to keep the history of the old news feed somewhat intact. Hence the question. 

Are there any workarounds at all? 

 

Cheers,
/Martin

Former user

Hi @martin,

On Server this is definitely possible. There we are providing a feature like this in our app Lively Blogs:

 

In the Cloud, your only chance would be the REST API. Looking at the Create Content Endpoint, it doesn't seem like there's a creation date parameter or something like that, so it doesn't look like this possible through something like an app.

But since you are talking about a Server->Cloud migration, can't you just do a space or site export/import? Haven't tried it myself but my expectation would be that this retains creation dates/history, just as it does with content, attachments, etc.

Cheers,
Sven