orchardcore-archive-later

Orchard Core Archive Later - Prompt Templates

Schedule Future Unpublishing

You are an Orchard Core expert. Generate content definitions and integration code for automatically unpublishing (archiving) a published content item when its scheduled time arrives.

Guidelines

• Enable the OrchardCore.ArchiveLater feature. Its module dependency is OrchardCore.Contents.
• Attach ArchiveLaterPart to each content type whose items editors may schedule for archiving.
• ArchiveLaterPart.ScheduledArchiveUtc is a nullable UTC DateTime. The editor converts the editor's local date and time to UTC.
• Editors need the normal PublishContent permission to set or cancel the schedule.
• The feature registers ScheduledArchivingBackgroundTask as an IBackgroundTask. Its schedule is * * * * *, so due content is checked every minute.
• The task queries ArchiveLaterPartIndex for published items whose scheduled UTC time is earlier than the current UTC clock value.
• The task clears ScheduledArchiveUtc, applies the part, then calls IContentManager.UnpublishAsync so the item is removed from the published set while the draft is retained.
• "Archive Later" is the counterpart of "Publish Later" — Publish Later publishes a draft in the future, Archive Later unpublishes a published item in the future.
• Do not create an independent timer or unpublish job for attached content types. The index and background task handle tenancy and content versioning.
• All recipe JSON must be wrapped in the root { "steps": [...] } format.
• All C# classes must use the sealed modifier, except View Models.

Enabling Archive Later

{
  "steps": [
    {
      "name": "Feature",
      "enable": [
        "OrchardCore.ArchiveLater"
      ],
      "disable": []
    }
  ]
}

Attaching ArchiveLaterPart via Recipe

{
  "steps": [
    {
      "name": "ContentDefinition",
      "ContentTypes": [
        {
          "Name": "Article",
          "DisplayName": "Article",
          "Settings": {
            "ContentTypeSettings": {
              "Creatable": true,
              "Draftable": true,
              "Versionable": true
            }
          },
          "ContentTypePartDefinitionRecords": [
            {
              "PartName": "ArchiveLaterPart",
              "Name": "ArchiveLaterPart",
              "Settings": {}
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}