---
title: li-distribution-dates
description: "A system metadata plugin to express the demand for a piece of content to be finished and being used at a certain point in time."
---
**Notice**: The li-distribution-dates plugin is only available if the Planning System is enabled.

## Supported Features

| Feature | Supported |
| ------- | :-------: |
| Document | ✔ |
| Media | ✗ |
| Include | ✗ |
| Document Creation Flow | ✗ |
| Push Message | ✗ |
| Usage Log | ✗ |
| Table Dashboard | ✔ |
| Display Filter | ✗ |
| Search Indexing | ✗ |
| System Metadata | ✔ |
| Planning System | ✔ |
| 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.

```js
{
  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

```js
// 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

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

```

## Content Type Config

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