Comments on: Inconvenient PublishingScheduleControl

By: Sander Schutten

Sander Schutten — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:33:04 +0000

Microsoft gives a (crappy) workaround: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940957

By: Sander Schutten

Sander Schutten — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:32:03 +0000

The official solution (a workround) is described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940957
The workaround is somewhat useless.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:11:17 +0000

@Paul: you should add the scheduling controls inside an Edit Panel. If you want to know how it works exactly, you can examine one of the standard Page Layouts like ArticleLeft.aspx.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:58:23 +0000

I can\'t work out how to get the scheduling controls onto my article page layout. They\'re not there by default and I\'d assumed they would be added at run-time once scheduling was enabled on the library.

I added them myself in SharePoint Designer but then I have the problem that they also display on the publsihed version!

Am I missing something here??

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:16:22 +0000

@Anthony: This code compiles:

using System.Web.UI.Adapters;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;

namespace ClassLibrary
{
public class PublishingScheduleFieldControlAdapter : ControlAdapter
{
protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
base.CreateChildControls();

BaseFieldControl schedulerFieldControl = Control as BaseFieldControl;
if (schedulerFieldControl.CssClass.Contains("UseAsEndDate"))
{
PublishingScheduleControl scheduler = schedulerFieldControl.Controls[0] as PublishingScheduleControl;
if (scheduler != null)
{
scheduler.UseAsEndDate = true;
}
}
}
}
}

By: Anthony Southworth

Anthony Southworth — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:58:07 +0000

Hi Waldek,

I'm trying to use your solution with the app_code folder but I'm getting an error PublishingScheduleControl is not defined. Which namespaces are you importing?

By: Peter vd Berg

Peter vd Berg — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:55:26 +0000

@Waldek. My situation is the same as you described in je first part \"The process is as simple as enabling versioning, approval and items scheduling on the Pages Library and editing the desired publication and expiration dates on the Publishing Page.\". I don\'t use extra workflow scheme\'s. But thx for you solution anyway because it gave me new insights in this matter.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:00:39 +0000

@Peter vd Berg: as far as I can tell the UseAsEndDate property is being used for more than rendering the label only. Although I haven't experienced the issue you have described (having to do with the fact that most customers don't use the approval workflow/item scheduling), the solution I presented might be just the thing you're looking for.

By: Peter vd Berg

Peter vd Berg — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:18:21 +0000

There's another thing I bumped into when working with the publishing schedule controls on the pagelayout:
If you've published a page through the publishing schedule controls through the pagelayout (start date and end date included) things go well. But then, for instance if the end date is passed and you want to reschedule the page, like re-publish it using the publishing schedule controls on the pagelayout, things go wrong. The page will not be published (approved) and giving a error friendly message. Apparently the only way to re-publish the page is by going to the page properties page or the page, page settings and schedule page and there you can give the start and end date and the page will be saved and published.

Did you experience this same issue? And with your solution mentioned above, was this fixed?