Functionality suggestions/requests
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Schedules –
Request 1: Change functionality so that we can set up a schedule whether or not there are currently any posts that fit the criteria (ie- the schedule is not dependent on existing posts/”Posts matching your filters,” and will try to run based on it’s time/date criteria), which leads us to…
Request 2: Set up a loop function so that if a schedule doesn’t have, or has run out of available posts for the established time frame, it just skips the attempt to auto-share and tries again at the next cycle instead of “finishing” the schedule.
Rationale: We use the FS Poster Schedules function to randomly pick and space out our shares to social media, particularly Meta sites. And while the Schedules works great, the downsides are that we require an admin with higher permissions to create schedules in FS Poster, and we would like the ability to schedule ahead whether or not there are currently any posts that are matching the filters.
Additionally, if currently active schedules runs out of available posts, they finish up and stop trying. While writers with the permissions to schedule posts may do so after it finishes, if a schedule has finished, an admin has to go in and create a new one, which may not always be timely.
My site posts a lot of news but, due to its nature and availability of writers, there may be periods where there ISN’T any news posted.
The ability for the schedules to just say “Looks like there’s nothing for me to share, I’ll try again in (X amount of user-defined minutes)” is preferable to “Looks like there’s nothing for me to share, I’ll just stop now.”
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