Staggered Posting on AO3

[boundbooks]

Question! Is there any way to do staggered posting in a collection on AO3? You know, advent calendar style, where all the works have been submitted to the collection previously, but works are revealed one per day?

Is there some kind of trick someone can do with moderating submissions in order to make this work? Any clues? :)

Comments

[alasen]

Not a coder, so there may be non-manual way (while I know a lot of people do watch this comm, your best bet is to file a support request if you haven't already), but from memory last year Purimgifts had its entrants tag their works with "Collection: Purimgifts Day 1", etc, so that the mod was able to reveal each of the works for that day. The tag wrangling committee was able to make these canonical tags so they showed up in the autocomplete - if that's of interest you can send us a request through the support form and we can look at making canonical tags for you.

[boundbooks]

It's great to know that there is a work around with subcollections! Thank you for the information! I will give support a poke and see what they say, as well as keep this entry in mind for tag info! :D

[cesy]

Yes, if you go to the manage items page you can reveal works one by one. There is currently a bug that gift notifications don't go out properly if you do this, though. How soon do you need it?

[boundbooks]

It'd be for an Advent calendar in December (a collection of 24 stories/gifts, one revealed per day), so by December 1st. Gift notification wouldn't be a problem, as the fics aren't 'for' anyone, they're just more of a community gift.

THE MANAGE ITEMS PAGE IS THE GREATEST! I never knew about it! :D :D :D

Thank you so much! I think I can do this now! :D