Scheduling & Approvals

Beyond publishing a page immediately, Alokai CMS can schedule a page to go live (or come down) at a future time, and can require an approval before a change is published.

Scheduled actions

A scheduled action publishes or unpublishes a specific page at a chosen time. Instead of clicking Publish now, you pick a date and time, and the CMS performs the action automatically when it arrives (a background job runs every minute).

• Schedule a publish — stage a page now and have it go live at, say, the start of a campaign.
• Schedule an unpublish — automatically take a page down when a promotion ends.
• Cancel — a pending scheduled action can be cancelled any time before it runs.

Scheduled actions are listed for the active edition, each showing its page, the time it will run, and its status (pending, executed, cancelled, or failed).

Note

Scheduling is edition-scoped — a scheduled action belongs to the edition it was created in.

Approvals

An approval request puts a publish behind a review step. Rather than publishing directly, an editor requests publication; a user with approval rights then approves or rejects it, optionally leaving a review comment.

• A request records who asked, which page, and when.
• A reviewer with the right role approves or rejects it. Approving carries the publish through; rejecting leaves the page unpublished with the comment attached.
• Approvals and scheduled actions work together: a scheduled publish can carry an attached approval so it only runs once approved.

Whether approvals are required, and who can approve, depends on your space’s roles. See your space settings for the current policy.

Where to find it

Pending scheduled actions and approval requests appear in the dashboard for the active edition. Publishing itself — including the unreviewed-translation gate — is covered in Publishing.