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Add expire (date) to multi-edit tool #1585
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+1 from me. Further considerations: given the process of expiring an article comprises setting an expire date of
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Oooh, yes please. With all the options Pete says, too. I can take this if nobody else wants it. |
With that enthusiasm, sold! |
The only snagola with this is how to present the sub-options. Traditionally, it's been a dropdown of selections but that won't work here because a "Change expiry" multi-edit feature requires:
I don't really want to add three new entries to the multi-edit tool (change expiry to..., reset expiry to now, and remove expiry) so I'd like some form of combined option. Lowest common denominator is a textbox with some input validation on it or textbox that has In theory, a native browser date picker solves everything, as it allows an arbitrary date, a 'today' (now) button and a 'none' button. But the kicker is that it's not so easy to type the date in, which is often faster than faffing with swiping/scrolling through years, months, days, hours, minutes, etc. Of those browsers that do permit dates to be typed, they're prescriptive on format (I believe) and only permit YYYY-MM-DD format, and possibly YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS for datetimes. Not sure: I'd need to check. So what's the best way forward in terms of UX here? Anyone got any thoughts? |
Defer until 4.9, without wishing to derail @phiw13's OP. The work planned for 4.9 would make this complementary. Gut feeling says this is outside the scope of a patch release at (potentially) the end of a release series. |
That may be prudent. |
Yes, please. That was the reason why I waited and only filed this after the TXP 4.8.4 release. :-) That said, my first thought was – KISS – an option to add, and remove, an option to set that date to |
What the headline says, for the Articles panel. This would make batch processing of the expire date (add/remove) much easier.
For context, see this forum post.
TY.
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