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Agree that out-of-published date indication is quite important

Having only data-only (template-less) publishing in place makes this idea be relatively straightforward 

However, we are talking not only about content here but also about variants of the content since templating is involved

Please share your thoughts on the following use case:

- You have a component "Article" that was updated recently

- It has 3 interpretations: short view used on the main page, full view used on an article page and it is also used as a static component on a press release document

You have an association with 3 different variants (templates) of your content that can be published as well to multiple endpoints

Please share your thoughts on how would you indicate that content is out of published date

Main Issue with CMS - No concept of "stale" content

This is basic, basic, functionality. Provide an indicator around stale content - content that was updated prior to the last time it was published. 

Within the CME - i.e. One solution could be color-coded, or another could be an image or even the name in italics - ANYTHING that can distinguish a high-level representation of content that has been updated prior to the last time it was published.

Andrew Ross

  • +1 to  point to describe the status based on something being updated. "Out-of-date," changes pending, or "draft" would be other ways to describe stale content.

    Regardless, I'd recommend any double negatives. Grinning

    So "current" might be better than "not out-of-date."

    In terms of visualization, color, icons, and text formatting seem good--just not color alone (for accessibility reasons). Wink Such a status might be good as a column for filtering, which has overlap with another idea for publishing status across environments.

  • Perhaps the converse would be more useful: Identify the objects that have been updated since the last publish. (In my world, there are many fewer of these than there are of "stale" topics.) Doing so would make it easier to answer the question, "Did the content for Feature X make it into the most recent draft?"

    In the meantime, here's a workaround: On the Output tab, get the publish date. Then, on the Baseline tab, sort by Date Modified, and compare with the publish date.

    Hope this is helpful.