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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
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Posted on 11/02/2021 11:55:13

Hi there,

I have a page structure with a few pages that won't be visible until next week using the publication period. Some of those pages in turn contain paragraphs with a publication period in the future.

Managing and previewing this content introduces some issues:

  • I can successfully request a future page when I am logged in to the backend. However, I don't see the future paragraphs as they are not active yet. How do I validate / test this content without making it live?
  • Links to pages that aren't active yet come up as Default.aspx?ID=0, leading to broken links. This in turn makes testing these impossible.

Are there any solutions for this? The preview functionality doesn't give me what I need unfortunately.

Thanks!

Imar


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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 11/02/2021 13:15:30
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Nope. Does not exist I am affraid. In old days, there was a preview=true that gave you all on that page published or not. But not anymore.

 
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 11/02/2021 13:17:45
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What links to pages? Where do you enter them? If in the text editor the id is there, so it must be a field - but which one?

 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 11/02/2021 14:17:24
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Under the covers we use GetPageIdByNavigationTag to get the ID. I looked at the source code and found this:

public int GetPageIdByNavigationTag(string navigationTag)
{
    if (Pageview is object)
    {
        var p = Services.Pages.GetPageByNavigationTag(Pageview.AreaID, navigationTag);
        if (p is object && p.Published)
        {
            return p.ID;
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

 
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 11/02/2021 15:55:46
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That was introduced with the bug TFS#42931 that thinks that it is a problem that unpublished pages can be linked to...

I'll remove it again!

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Oleg Rodionov Dynamicweb Employee
Oleg Rodionov
Posted on 12/02/2021 00:57:48
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Hi,

The issue will be fixed by Feature 601: Previewing limited pages submitted. Thanks for observing.

BR, Oleg QA

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