I have a community of players of a particular board game and I have a very modest amount of users on my Discourse website. I’ve been trying to keep users engaged by posting as often as possible, usually once a week, and lately I’ve been having a bit of a hard time scheduling content to be published. I post on my Staff category and then schedule it to be posted in some public category, and I space out the topics so that I ensure 1 new topic is published every week. What I would like to do is to be able to see the date the post is going to be published when I’m looking at the list of topics, but I don’t know if this is even something that is possible. This would help me as a community manager to be able to, at a glance, see which dates already have content scheduled and then when I create a new Staff topic I know which date to add. Currently, to find out what is the latest date for which there is a post scheduled, I need to memorize the topics I scheduled and navigate to them manually and check the publishing date on each topic. This is far from ideal… :slight_smile:

i found this post in the #howto:faq section. See if this will help you [image] Scheduling topics for future publication Site Management bookmark This guide explains how to use topic timers to schedule a topic for future publication in Discourse. Discourse allows you to create topics and schedule them for publication at a later date using topic timers. This feature is available to staff (admins and moderators) as well as trust level 4 users. To schedule a topic for future publication: Create a new topic in a private category, as a private message, or as an unlisted topic Set a topic timer for publishing Choose the publica…

Hello Gavin, That tutorial just shows how to use the timed topic feature, which I am already doing and seems to be functioning just fine. I’m referring to the potential feature of viewing a list all timed topics, sorted by publishing date. Thanks anyway.

using the Discourse Data Explorer might be a solution

Ooh, this actually seems like something I can poke around with, more than for just this question. Didn’t know about it. Thanks! :slight_smile:

Is it possible to see the dates of all scheduled topics?

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plipsqueek July 28, 2020, 9:36pm 7

Awesome Gavin, that’s perfect! Thank you so much for your help

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Is it possible to see the dates of all scheduled topics?

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