[FR] Allow re-setting publish date

[minht11]

Allow changing publishing date to previous date in time for example if today is 2023-10-10, I want to be able to set publish date to 2022-10-10.

[ComfortablyCoding]

This should already be possible via #46 . Whatever date you set in the interface as the publish date should be set as the date published.

So if you have a draft and set the publish date as 2 days ago the next cron cycle should pick it up, change the status to published and the publish date as 2 days ago.

Is this not working for you?

[ComfortablyCoding]

Closing due to inactivity. We can re-open if suggested steps do not work.

[minht11]

Sorry for taking so long. We had issues with updating strapi, I wanted to make sure we are on latest version. Now we are on Strapi 1.15 and Publisher version 1.5.2. Setting date back in time, for example one year ago, doesn't work. Published at date is still returned the same.

[ComfortablyCoding]

If the entry is already published then it will not override the date that has already been set.

I am not opposed to introducing a setting for controlling this.

What is the use case for why you need to frequently re-set the published date? If this is a one off then a faster way would be to do it via the API

[minht11]

Our non technical people want to change pusblish date, for blog articles and so on. Without an UI its difficult to do that. Since this plugin already deals with publishing, it seems natural place to have this functionality.