I have some particular requirements that I'm not sure how to fulfil, so I'll try to briefly describe what I need and perhaps someone can suggest a method.
Users will use an asset builder to create assets (probably news items) that will be moderated then displayed on an asset listing when live.
At some point, an external system will extract the asset listing as a feed, to build and send a customised marketing email.
The site manager then needs to be able to 'clear' the feed (asset listing), so that stories sent in this email don't appear in the next issue.
I'd like to avoid having the site manager entering the admin interface if possible… ie: some sort of trigger that can be accessed via a standard page would be great.
…any ideas? 
[quote]I have some particular requirements that I'm not sure how to fulfil, so I'll try to briefly describe what I need and perhaps someone can suggest a method.
Users will use an asset builder to create assets (probably news items) that will be moderated then displayed on an asset listing when live.
At some point, an external system will extract the asset listing as a feed, to build and send a customised marketing email.
The site manager then needs to be able to 'clear' the feed (asset listing), so that stories sent in this email don't appear in the next issue.
I'd like to avoid having the site manager entering the admin interface if possible… ie: some sort of trigger that can be accessed via a standard page would be great.
…any ideas? :-)[/quote]
The simplest method I could think of was to use a "Link Manager Page" to provide an interface to unlink items used to generate the listing from a secondary folder. I presume that items are not cleared on a strict monthly basis.
The Asset Builder would then need to be configured to link newly-created assets into this secondary folder upon creation.
eg; (forgive the text-based tree)
+-- Site
+--- News Items
+--- Last Month's News Item
+--- My News Item
+--- Items to Send << target this asset for the Asset Listing
+--- My News Item (linked)
[quote]The simplest method I could think of was to use a "Link Manager Page" to provide an interface to unlink items used to generate the listing from a secondary folder. I presume that items are not cleared on a strict monthly basis.
The Asset Builder would then need to be configured to link newly-created assets into this secondary folder upon creation.[/quote]
OK, thanks for the pointer, but I'm having some problems.
You were correct in the presumption that we're not talking about a fixed date - it's going to be arbitrary, so I need to enable a user to do it 'on demand'.
What I built was this:
+ Site
+ News Items << target for asset builder
+ My News Item
+ Current Items << second target for asset builder and target for the Asset Listing
+ My News Item (linked)I'd hoped to use the Link Manager to list all the items in "Current Items" and use check boxes to unlink them. However, the link manager seems to work the wrong way around for that. I have read that I'd be able embed it in a design and allow the user to control the 'current asset', and I think that would technically do what I need, however, I realise now that there was one important piece of information I missed out... we're talking about at least 50 assets at a time, so doing each asset individually using this method is impractical.
If the link manager allowed me to manage the child links of an asset via some sort of check box interface, that would be great, but it seems to only allow me to specify the parent assets an item is linked to.
Am I understanding this correctly?
Can you suggest any further options for me?