When writing a discussion post or blog article (collectively, "content"), you can:

• save your work as a draft if you want to finish it later;
• schedule it to be published at a future date, making it easy to complete work in advance.

IMPORTANT: This article references blogs and blog articles. Depending on your product model, you might see news and news articles in your site. These are different names for the same feature and references to blogs in this article are also applicable to news.

Save your content as a draft

When writing discussion posts and blog articles, your work is automatically saved so you don't have to worry about losing it in the event of a browser crash or other unfortunate incident.

For even more peace of mind, you can also manually save your content as a draft if you need to stop and come back to it later. To do so, click the Save As Draft button at the bottom of the content editor.

Saving content as a draft removes the pressure to finish writing your messages and articles in one sitting, giving you the freedom to return to them when you have time. It also enables you to easily draft content ahead of time and publish it when you're ready.

TIP: The first time you manually save a message as a draft, a message displays that includes a link to your My Contributions page, helping you understand where to go to manage your drafts.

Auto-saving

To ensure your work is preserved, your posts and articles are automatically saved whenever you've been idle for 10 second; saves are not initiated if you're actively typing.

NOTE: For blog articles, a title must be entered before an auto-save will initiate; for discussion posts, a community must be selected and a subject entered before an auto-save will initiate.

Access your drafts

You can easily filter your full list of contributions in order to see just your draft items.

1. In your user profile, click My Contributions > My List of Contributions.

The My Content list displays your published, saved, and scheduled content.

2. Click the View all items dropdown and choose View draft items.

The page refreshes and displays only your draft items.

3. Click a draft's title to manage it.

IMPORTANT: If you make a selection from the dropdown but you don't have any content items in the chosen state, when the page refreshes it will be blank and the dropdown will not display. Click My Contributions > My List of Contributions to repopulate the page with your content.

Schedule a post or article

In addition to saving content as a draft, you can also schedule discussion posts and blog articles for publishing at a future date; this is ideal for creating content in advance and ensuring it's published according to a planned schedule, like when you need to drop new content on a weekly or monthly rhythm.

IMPORTANT: When scheduling content, the time is based on the time zone of your browser. Then, Higher Logic converts it to UTC.

To schedule a post or article, click the Schedule button at the bottom of the blog or message editor.

NOTE: You must enter a subject, select a Topic Tag, and have text in the body before you'll be able to schedule.

Then, choose the desired date, and click the clock icon at the bottom of the calendar to choose a specific time.

NOTE: You can schedule blog articles and when posting a new discussion post or replying to a post.

Access your scheduled content

You can easily filter your full list of contributions in order to see just your scheduled items.

1. In your user profile, click My Contributions > My List of Contributions.

The My Content list displays your published, saved, and scheduled content.

2. Click the View all items dropdown and choose View scheduled items.

The page refreshes and displays only your scheduled items.

3. Click a scheduled item's title to manage it.

IMPORTANT: If you make a selection from the dropdown but you don't have any content items in the chosen state, when the page refreshes it will be blank and the dropdown will not display. Click My Contributions > My List of Contributions to repopulate the page with your content.

Manage your scheduled content

You can manage scheduled blog articles and discussion posts as follows:

• Edit - Scheduled content can be modified up until its scheduled publish date and time. Simply edit the content and click Save.
• Reschedule - At any time prior to its release, you can edit scheduled content and click Reschedule to choose a new scheduled publish date and time.
• Convert to draft - You can edit scheduled content and click Convert to Draft to un-schedule the publishing and convert the content to a draft.
• Delete - If you edit a scheduled post or article and click Delete, the scheduled content (once confirmed) is deleted (no copy of the content is saved).

Access your published content

You can easily filter your full list of contributions in order to see just your published items.

1. In your user profile, click My Contributions > My List of Contributions.

The My Content list displays your published, saved, and scheduled content.

2. Click the View all items dropdown and choose View published items.

The page refreshes and displays only your published items.

3. Click an item's title to manage it.

IMPORTANT: If you make a selection from the dropdown but you don't have any content items in the chosen state, when the page refreshes it will be blank and the dropdown will not display. Click My Contributions > My List of Contributions to repopulate the page with your content.