Scheduled updates allow you to make changes to entities in the Knowledge Graph that will take effect at a specific date and time. Scheduled updates can be made on a single entity or in bulk on a set of entities.
Scheduled updates can help you handle content changes like:
- Seasonal and holiday updates, like hours or product promotions
- New locations and products
- Relocations
- Closed locations
- Rebrands
Some things to note:
- Scheduled updates cannot be made via the API.
- Scheduled updates are not compatible with content approvals. See Approve or Reject Suggestions for more information.
Schedule an entity update
- Navigate to Entity Search (Knowledge Graph > Entities) and select the entity or set of entities you would like to edit.
- For more information on how to edit multiple entities, see Edit Entities in Bulk.
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From the Entity Edit view, find the Scheduled Updates module on the right of the screen.
- Click Add an Update.
- In the modal, select the date, time, and timezone when you want your update to occur. When finished, click Create.
- By default, the timezone will be set to Relative. Scheduling a relative update will apply the update at the selected date and time in the local time of your selected entity or entities.
- If you do not want to use relative timezones, select a timezone from the dropdown. This will apply your update at the chosen date and time in the specified timezone, regardless of where your selected entities are located.
- The Entity Edit view will reload. Make any desired changes to fields and click Schedule Update when finished.
- You can also use scheduled updates to apply entity templates at a future date. After choosing the date, time, and timezone for your scheduled update, click the Select Action dropdown in the upper right of Entity Edit and select Apply Template. See Apply an Entity Template for more information.
- You can also use scheduled updates to apply entity templates at a future date. After choosing the date, time, and timezone for your scheduled update, click the Select Action dropdown in the upper right of Entity Edit and select Apply Template. See Apply an Entity Template for more information.
- In the modal, choose whether you want to revert your scheduled changes back to the previous values at a future date.
- If you do not want to revert your scheduled update, select No, don’t revert content.
- If you’re making a temporary change, select Yes, schedule a revert, and select the desired date, time, and time zone.
- Click Close on the modal. Refer back to the scheduled updates module to see your scheduled update.
View and Modify Scheduled Updates
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To see what your entire entity will look like as of a certain scheduled update, click on the scheduled update in the Scheduled Updates module.
- Click Present in the scheduled updates module to return to the current version of the entity.
- To reschedule or cancel an update, hover over the desired update and click the dropdown arrow. Then, choose Reschedule Update or Cancel Update.