# Shared Drafts: Allow staff to collaborate on posts before publishing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-allow-staff-to-collaborate-on-posts-before-publishing/83493>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** new-feature, shared-drafts\
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-allow-staff-to-collaborate-on-posts-before-publishing/83493 "2018-03-21T16:51:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Temujin\_Calidius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/temujin_calidius/32/247818_2.png) [@Temujin\_Calidius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Temujin_Calidius)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-allow-staff-to-collaborate-on-posts-before-publishing/83493/41 "2024-01-21T03:42:57Z")

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Bit of a response much later in terms of years.

We are trying to schedule posts using this feature, but we are getting the following issues:

- When you set a topic timer to schedule into a category, while it does post it there, it remains as a ‘Shared Draft’ and is not visible to anyone unless you click that big publish button.

- If we don’t use shared drafts, and instead schedule a topic published into a private category, while it does schedule correctly and post, plugins such as `Chat Integration` will not pick up the new topic and push it into webhooks on Discord announcements channel as an example.

Any solutions to these?

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