philgyford
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1 year ago @StephenAbbott Just checking: From your team's point of view, would it be better / more flexible / clearer if there was a second date (or date + time) field for when the job should disappear from the site?
If you would only ever set this to 2 days after the deadline, maybe it would be annoying to fill in every time. On the other hand it would be more flexible – you could change the gap between deadline and expiration over time – and it's more explicit about the meaning and effect of each date.
StephenAbbott
In our initial Wagtail v2 setup for the Open Ownership website, there was an expiration date field for Job pages. When set, this would remove the pages from the live site after the application date had passed.
In our current Wagtail v4 setup, we are keen to use this same functionality but are unsure how to do so. There is an Application deadline field on the Content tab for each job page:
And we can see in the CMS that job pages are given an Expired label once this Application deadline has passed:
However at the moment this expiration doesn't result in any changes on the job page. So the Open Ownership team is manually unpublishing job ads the day after the application deadline has passed.
The functionality we would like to see is for job pages to automatically be unpublished/moved to draft two days after the application deadline as most of our application deadlines are one minute to midnight at the very end of the application date given on the job pages. Is that possible in Wagtail 4?