li-distribution-dates

Notice: The li-distribution-dates plugin is only available if the Planning System is enabled.

Supported Features

Document✔
Media✗
Include✗
Document Creation Flow✗
Push Message✗
Table Dashboard✔
Display Filter✗
Search Indexing✗
System Metadata✔
Webhook Conditions✗

Description

The plugin is meant to be used on planning boards to express the demand side in editorial planning workflows. Please contact Livingdocs for further details.

UI Configuration

Precision

The precision configuration option controls whether editors can set both date and time or only the date.

{
  handle: 'distributionDates',
  type: 'li-distribution-dates',
  ui: {
    config: {
      precision: 'date' // Options: 'datetime' (default) or 'date'
    }
  }
}

Configuration Options:

  • precision: 'datetime' (default): Editors can set both date and time
  • precision: 'date': Editors only set the date; time is automatically set to 12:00 (noon) for timezone consistency

Planning Board Config

// Excerpt from project config
module.exports = {
  dashboards: [
    {
      type: 'planningBoard', // automatically adds main column and distribution dates column, has custom sorting and filtering
      handle: 'daily',
      pageTitle: {en: 'Daily Planning', de: 'Tagesplanung'},
      interval: 'day',
      baseFilters: [{key: 'contentType', term: ['regular', 'simple', 'pitch', 'bundle']}],
      displayFilters: [{metadataPropertyName: 'team'}, {metadataPropertyName: 'effort'}],
      additionalMetadataProperties: ['team', 'effort'] // Puts these columns between main column and distribution dates column
    }
  ]
}

Default UI

Metadata form and Table Dashboard Cell

Storage Format

[
  {
    id: <String>,
    date: <ISO8601 String>,
    done: <Boolean>
  }
]

Content Type Config

{
  handle: 'myContentType',
  // ...
  metadata: [
    {
      handle: 'myHandle',
      type: 'li-distribution-dates',
      ui: {
        config: {
          // Added in: release-2025-11
          precision: 'datetime' // Options: 'datetime' (default) or 'date'
        }
      }
    }
    // ...
  ]
}