Publish / Unpublish

Version 5.1 by Fabian Pichler on 2013/08/02 20:32

cogConfigure publish and unpublish dates on documents. Unpublished documents can only be seen with edit rights.
TypeAuthenticator
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Developed by

Edo Beutler, Fabian Pichler

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LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License 2.1

Description

This extension allows you to add a Classes.DocumentPublication object to a document and set a publish and / or unpublish date. Setting publish and unpublish dates restricts the view rights for visitors without edit rights. If you don't have edit rights you will be redirected to the login. Multiple publication timespans (objects) on a document are possible.
Empty date fields are seen as 'no date set', so you are able to set only a publish and no unpublish date for a document.

A little example:
You create the document Event.Registration with an object of class Classes.DocumentPublication with publishDate='01.08.2013 12:00' and unpublishDate='31.08.2013 18:00'. In that timespan all visitors can access the document. Before and after that time you need edit rights on Event.Registration to view the page.

Technical details (and *warning*):
In the current (first) version the extension there is a *performance penalty* because the security cache is not taken into account for documents with a publication object.

Prerequisites & Installation Instructions

Set security.authorization.settler=celpublication in xwiki.properties and add the jar file to the lib folder.

Add a boolean field 'publishdate_active' to XWiki.XWikiPreferences to activate the extension (or add celements.publishdate.active=1 to your config).

Create the class 'Classes.DocumentPublication' with the two date fields 'publishDate' and 'unpublishDate'. Hint: don't set unpublish as "empty is today" or you can't leave it empty.

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