Instead of assigning a date immediately and filling up the Calendar with content that is not ready to be scheduled yet, you can simply leave the publication date empty.
This works for:
Post-Sets and Contents: leave out the publication date
Frames: leave out the date range
You can still create, edit, review, assign, and prepare the content as usual. It simply stays outside the publishing timeline until you are ready to schedule it.
There are two ways to work with unscheduled content in Orchestrate.
1. Unscheduled Content from the main navigation
Open Unscheduled Content from the left navigation to see a table with all unscheduled Post-Sets, Frames, and Contents. This is the best place to get an overview, filter the list, check statuses and responsibilities, and find content that still needs to be scheduled.
2. Unscheduled Content in the Calendar
You can also open Unscheduled Content directly in the Calendar sidebar. This is useful when you are actively planning your publishing timeline.
From there, you can:
Drag unscheduled content onto the Calendar to schedule it
Choose or adjust the publication date and time
Drag scheduled content back into the sidebar to unschedule it again
This gives you a flexible way to move content between preparation and scheduling without losing track of it.
Status and unscheduled content
For Contents and Frames, being unscheduled can be independent of the workflow status. A blog post, for example, can already be In Review or Approved without having a publication date.
Post-Sets work differently: they follow a predefined publishing workflow, and actions such as scheduling or sending a post for approval require a publication date.