How to suppress the default unpublish behavior when adding the onTime property

Question

In our current project, when publishing a page, the workflow includes an approval process after which the page is given an onTime property so that it will be published automatically at the specified time.

However, when the workflow adds the onTime property to the page, AEM first unpublishes the page and then republishes it automatically once the specified time is reached.

My question is: when adding the onTime property to a page (e.g., /content/projectA/mypage/jcr:content), is it possible to suppress AEM’s default behavior of unpublishing the page?

For reference, when the onTime property is added to content under /content/dam, the content is not unpublished—instead, it is simply published automatically once the onTime is reached.

ryuushihou1990 · Accepted Answer

First of all, to answer Mr. @mukeshyadav_ : our requirement is customization. That’s why ManagePublication is not an option, since our process needs to include various approval steps as well as email notifications.

Next, to respond to Mr. @kautuk_sahni : in the end, I worked around this limitation by checking whether the resource is a page when adding the onTime property. If it is a page, then I trigger a scheduled job at the onTime to call the publish API and publish it. Although this added quite a bit of extra code, it solved my issue at the current stage.

Once again, thank you both for your replies.