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How do I create a future action?

Future actions allow you to further automate your content strategy workflows. With future actions, you can schedule a set of actions to be executed in the future and automatically change something in your publications.

Dialog to create future actions

For example, If you want to stick a post, unpublish it, change its status, or change its categories and tags, to name a few examples, you can now do it easily with our plugin while creating or editing a post or from the Editorial Calendar and Content Board views, using Nelio’s post quick editor.

From the Calendar and Content Board

When you create a new post or edit an existing post in the calendar or the content board, and click on View Details you can specify the future actions that should be performed related to that post.

Add future actions to a new post
Add future actions when editing a post in the calendar or content board
Specify the future actions that should be performed when your create or edit a post in the calendar or the content board.

By clicking Add Action, the following form will open:

Create future action popup form

which will allow you to create the new future action. These are the fields it includes:

  1. Action. The first drop-down field contains a list of future actions for you to select the one you want to be performed.
  2. Additional fields. To include some additional information related to the action selected.
  3. Date and Time in which the future action must be performed.

The different future actions you can choose from are:

Select a future action to a post
Select a future action to a post.
  • Change status action: to specify a new status of the post on the date and time selected.
Define as a future action to change the status of a post among your post status defined
  • Change terms action: to specify whether you want to add categories or tags, delete categories or tags, or replace the current categories or tags of the post with the new ones selected at the selected date and time.
Define as a future action to add terms to a post
Define as a future action to add terms to a post.
Define as a future action to change the terms to a post
Define as a future action to change the terms to a post.
  • Change custom fields: to specify whether you want to add custom fields, delete ccustom fields, or replace the current custom fields of the post with the new ones selected at the selected date and time.
Define as a future action to change certain custom fields to a post
Define as a future action to change certain custom fields to a post.
Define as a future action to add certain custom fields to a post
  • Delete content: to specify whether you want to completely remove the post at the selected date and time.
Define as a future action to remove a content from your website
Define as a future action to remove a content from your website.
  • Stick content: to specify whether you want to place the post at the top of the front page at the selected date and time.
Define as a future action to change the status of a post as stick content
Define as a future action to change the status of a post as stick content.
  • Unstick content: to specify whether you want to remove the post from the top of the front page at the selected date and time.
Define as a future action to change the status of a post as unstick content
Define as a future action to change the status of a post as unstick content.

Once all fields are filled, click on Save to create the future action.

From the Post Editor

To create a new future action while editing a post, click on the Add Action button on the Future Actions section of the editor’s sidebar.

Add future action to a post
In the Nelio Content toolbar, you can add a future action to the post you are writing.

This will open the same form to create a future action described above.