Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] Expiration date of articles

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Why not simply assume that a *null* expiration date causes the article 
to never expire ?
This behaviour is also backwards compatible: since the <=1.7.x databases 
don't have the "expiration date" field, it's correct when upgrading to 
fill the field with null values. This way the existing articles won't 
expire, exactly how they behave currently with 1.7.x.

Marcello


Dennis Heltzel wrote:
> Dennis Heltzel wrote:
> 
>> Oliver Hertel wrote:
>>
>>> this is a nice feature, but currently it let's expire any article as 
>>> soon as you submit it.
>>>
>>> Sure, you just have to set a higher date, but I think many people 
>>> just don't see that there is a new feature 'expiration date' and will 
>>> complain about article losses.
>>>
>>> And what if I don't want my articles to expire?
>>
>>
>> You're right, of course. I am planning to adjust this to default to 
>> some time in the future. Also, there is indeed a way to turn this off, 
>> but I haven't written the pages to admin the article types. I had 
>> intended that the regular type articles ignore the expiration date by 
>> default, but I guees that needs some looking at also.
>>
>> Thanks for your comments. This is a work in progress and I should have 
>> your ideas integrated in the next day or 2. The OSS mantra is "commit 
>> early and often", but sometimes that make life harder for the poor 
>> folks trying to actually use the latest stuff :)
> 
> 
> Expire date now defaults to 1 year in the future.
> I tested regular articles and they act as expected for me, that is they 
> continue to show on the page even after the expire date because the 
> exire date is ignored by default. It is still annoying to have the 
> expire date in the listing be wrong, so I added an update statement into 
> tiki_1.7to1.8.sql to change null expire dates to 12/31/04.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
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