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March 28, 2022
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Create URL before publishing

  • March 28, 2022
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Hi! We would love to have a way to create a URL before publishing a post. This would allow us to share links to scheduled posts with colleagues and also include these links in other scheduled posts. Thank you!

    Best answer by Chris Hackett

    Hi @mfifis  - So we do this for our newsletters. We need to publish them internally, have owners review them and then publish publicly after they are approved. We also need to supply the published links to our marketing team to create email announcements before they are published publicly. It’s a bit of a convoluted process but works for us. Steps are below in case they help you.

    1. Create article and publish to a “drafts” category that is only accessible to our “employee” role. example: https://community.acumatica.com/newsletter-drafts-169/acumatica-customer-newsletter-march-2022
    2. Take the category name that it will be moved to once approved and replace the drafts category name. In this case the new category will be “acumatica-customer-newsletter-163”. We can then give this link to marketing ahead of publication. example: https://community.acumatica.com/acumatica-customer-newsletter-163/acumatica-customer-newsletter-march-2022
    3. Once the drafts are approved we move each article to it’s correct category. example: https://community.acumatica.com/newsletter-drafts-169/acumatica-customer-newsletter-march-2022 is moved to https://community.acumatica.com/acumatica-customer-newsletter-163/acumatica-customer-newsletter-march-2022

    Cheers!

    Chris

     

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    Larry
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    Larry
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    March 9, 2026

    Thanks for keeping this thread alive and for the detailed feedback. This is super useful!

    I wanted to share that we're exploring a content publishing workflow later in 2026 that would introduce draft, review, approval, and publish states for articles. As part of that work, we're planning to look at pre-populating a permanent content URL at the point of draft creation which should address the enhancement request here. The concern around publish date would be resolved with that approach as we would ensure that the publish date is the “post date”, not the draft date.

    Nothing to commit to just yet, but I wanted you to know this is on our radar and that the use cases you've described (coordinated launches, sharing links before publish, avoiding the preview URL workaround) are exactly what we're designing around.

    Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd
      aluciani
      aluciani
      Helper ⭐️
      March 9, 2026

      Thanks for sharing ​@Larry sounds exciting! 

      judahs
      judahs
      Helper ⭐️
      March 9, 2026

      That’s exciting to hear ​@Larry!

      We currently use the solution identified in this thread too when we need to provide a URL before a topic is ready to be customer-facing: Publish the topic in a secret drafts category, predict the final URL by manually replacing the draft category with the intended category, then manually move the topic into the intended category once we have approval.

        Erik_
        Erik_
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        March 10, 2026

        Very good, and exciting to hear, ​@Larry! Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with. And we're always up for beta testing :D

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