Help Needed: How to Unpublish and Re-Publish Content in Sunbird

[snehal0904]

Hello All,

We are trying to find a way to temporarily unpublish content and re-publish it later when needed.

To unpublish the content, we are using the following Retire API: /content/v3/retire/{content_id}
This sets the content status to Retired, which works.
However, once the content is retired, we are unable to bring it back to the "Draft" or "Live" state using the Update API.

We tried using: /content/v3/update/{content_id}
But it does not allow updating a retired content or changing its status back to Draft or Live.

Questions:

1. Is there any way to revert a retired content back to an editable or publishable state?
2. If not, what is the recommended approach to temporarily unpublish content (i.e., hide from users) and bring it back later?
3. Is there an alternative workflow we should follow for this use case?

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

cc: @pallakartheekreddy @aimansharief @vinod303 @coolbung @vinod303

[pallakartheekreddy]

@snehal0904

1. Is there any way to revert a retired content back to an editable or publishable state?
   Ans: This is currently not supported.

2. If not, what is the recommended approach to temporarily unpublish content (i.e., hide from users) and bring it back later?
   Ans: We do not have an unpublish API, but we do support an unlisted publish API. This functions similarly to a publish operation, but the content will not be visible to users through the Search API unless the status is explicitly set to unlisted. You can use this API to hide content temporarily.

3. Is there an alternative workflow we should follow for this use case?
   Ans: Please refer to the answer above.

[snehal0904]

Hi Kartheek,

Thank you for the reply. I tried with the unlisted Status but it creates 2 copies. One Live and one Unlisted.