[Publication] Daily auto-publish must be configured

[kptdobe]

Everyday, the content is auto published. This requires some configuration in the query-index AND the new coming "crontab" feature https://github.com/adobe/helix-slack-bot/issues/249.
Publication times must be aligned with the current ones.

• en
• ko
• jp
• it
• fr
• es
• de
• br

@dominique-pfister Can you help here too ?

[dominique-pfister]

Please elaborate what auto publish is expected to do:

• should it take the pattern for that day (e.g. 2021-11-01) and actually publish those pages?
• or should the pages already "be there" and just the index updated at the designated time?

[kptdobe]

Good point. Probably more complicated that initially thought.

I see to variables:

• the time configured in the query-index which defines "when is the beginning of the day for a region" - i.e. when articles go from raw-index to helix-default sheets
• some timer that publish the index automatically "at the beginning of the day of a region"

Today, if author did not hit publish, it still works. It will not anymore.

I suggest that we start simple, i.e. just update the index at a given time every day for each region. If articles are missing frequently, we could considering adding more magic.

WDYT ?

[dominique-pfister]

Sounds good, that should be easily doable.

[rofe]

@dominique-pfister we currently only automate en and ko, while the rest of the regions is publishing manually, right? We should keep that the same.

[dominique-pfister]

Just remembered: fr is already automatically published.

[dominique-pfister]

Prepared switch in our Google Apps Script to invoke admin's publish index API at the designated times. Next, they will automatically be invoked by Scheduled Publishing.

[kptdobe]

The scheduling worked yesterday. Closing issue.