Scheduling a publication
Until now, publishing meant clicking at the right moment. An article ready on Friday for Monday at 7 am needed someone at 7 am. The publication review now has a “When” step: now, or a date and a time. At that time, Poquelin runs exactly the publication you would have run by hand — sending to the connected sites, switching to Published, ticking the Planner topic.
The article stays “Scheduled” until a site has accepted it. If the send fails, it does not become Published silently: it stays scheduled, the failure shows in the article list with its reason, and you retry in one click. No email, no pre-flight check at the scheduled time: the publication review remains the moment you check things.
In the Planner, a scheduled article appears in the agenda on its publication date, not on the day it was created. What you see on Monday morning is what goes out on Monday morning.
PDFs as sources
A newsroom gets its raw material as PDFs: press releases, press kits, reports, council minutes. Until now you had to copy and paste the text into the brief, losing tables, layout and traceability. A PDF now drops into the brief like a link or a photo, from the media library or by simple drag and drop.
Poquelin reads the document according to what it is. A one- or two-page press release is taken word for word. A long report is summarised, with the useful passages quoted. A scanned PDF with no text layer is read by vision, up to fifteen pages. A document Poquelin cannot read is refused as soon as it is added, with the reason — never at generation time.
Embargoes are spotted at reading time and flagged in the brief, so the publication date can take them into account.
Why now
These two pieces prepare what comes next: once Poquelin can publish on its own at a given time, it can chain what follows a publication — the push notification, the social posts with the article’s URL. That is the circuit the next releases will plug in.