Scheduled publishing

Hygraph gives you the ability to schedule content publishing, and unpublishing as one off, or as a collection (referred to as a "release").

TerminologyAnchor

SectionDescription
Scheduled ItemsOverview of all individually scheduled items that are not part of a release.
ReleasesOverview of all releases, and their scheduled items.

How to scheduleAnchor

When editing a content entry, instead of publishing right away, you can Schedule item for publishing at a later day and time.

You can find this option inside of the dropdown on the Publish button.

Schedule Item Dropdown
Schedule Item Dropdown

You will then be guided through the scheduling process. Here you can create a one off scheduled release, or bundle it with other scheduled items.

Schedule Item Options
Schedule Item Options

Item onlyAnchor

You can publish (or unpublish) individual content entries at a specified date and time by selecting the Schedule Item only option.

Schedule Item
Schedule Item

If you have any references linked to the item you are scheduling, you can also schedule those individually too.

Schedule Related Entries
Schedule Related Entries

ReleasesAnchor

You can bundle multiple content entries into a single release that will be published (or unpublished) at a specified date and time.

Your releases will be shown if you choose to Add item to a release:

Schedule release
Schedule release

If you don't have any releases, you should create one.

Once you select the release you want to add this item to, you can then select if the item should be published, or unpublished as well as any localizations to be included:

Schedule release item
Schedule release item

Create a releaseAnchor

You'll want to create a Release if you want to schedule a group of entries to be published (or unpublished) at the specified day and/or time for the Release.

Inside of Releases click on Create release:

Releases overview
Releases overview

Then give it a name, and optional description to continue:

Create release
Create release

LimitsAnchor

  • Any changes to your DRAFT content will be included with any pending scheduled release(s)
  • You can have a maximum limit of 50 pending releases, and 50 items in a single release.
  • You can have a maximum of 200 pending scheduled items overall within your project environment.