Schedule a post to appear in the feed (a repeating group)

Hi,

I added a features that allows users to create and add a post that shows up in a repeating group. is there a way to allow a user to schedule a post and have it displayed in the feed (repeating group of posts) on that date and time?

Yep, use a backend workflow to schedule it to trigger at a given time. The actions within the backend workflow can be making the post public.

is there a way to do it from the front end or just a workflow?

Yes.

You would:

  1. Create your form to collect the info about the post you’re tryna make
  2. Make a button to submit the form
  3. In the workflow when the button is pressed, there’s a few things that you can do – it depends on your database structure
    – You can choose to create a new thing when it’s the desired post time
    – You can choose to create the thing on button press and then unhide the post when it’s time

Either way, you would schedule a backend workflow to accomplish it.

Sounds like you may be new to Bubble? Maybe check out this video on backend workflows: https://youtu.be/Kd9pLy4ob8I?si=R0d25pZIOloxsGWi

Indeed, I’m fairly new. I was thinking about adding a date picker and saving the data in the data table of posts. Then in the repeating group, and a constraint like setdate <=current time

You could do that as well

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