Start publishing date for a page cannot be set earlier than publishing date of the parent channel (816986)

SYMPTOMS

When you try to change the publishing date for a posting to an earlier date compared to the publishing date of the containing channel of the posting, you notice that the publishing date was not set to the specified date. Instead, the publishing date was set to a date that is later than the publishing date of the containing channel.

RESOLUTION

Service pack information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

906142 How to obtain the latest Content Management Server 2002 service pack

Hotfix information

File information

The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date         Time   Version            Size    File name
   --------------------------------------------------------------
   10-Dec-2002  21:52  4.0.1381.4         65,600  Cmsupdate.exe    
   22-Mar-2003  00:48  5.0.1619.0        368,640  Microsoft.
                                                  contentmanagement.
                                                  webauthor.dll  
   22-Mar-2003  01:07                      1,693  Update.inf

Note This fix addresses this issue by prompting you to change the publishing date until a date equal to or later than that of the parent channel is entered.

MORE INFORMATION

The behavior where a user cannot set the publishing date of a posting to a date before the publishing date of the containing channel is by design. Changing this logic breaks the business functionality of the parent channel. This hot fix does not change this particular behavior. Instead, it enforces this behavior by notifying the user that the action cannot be completed instead of just setting the publishing date to a random later date.

To install the fix, follow these steps:

Back up the .dll file that you want to replace. You can find the file in the following location:[CMS install directory]\Server\bin. The name of the file is Microsoft.ContentManagement.WebAuthor.dll.
Run Cmsupdate.exe from the hotfix package.
Run GacUtil against the new .dll file. You can do this if you open an MS-DOS command prompt and then move to the framework bin directory. For example, run the following command line:
>cd \program files\microsoft visual studio .net\frameworksdk\bin >gacutil /i \Program Files\Microsoft Content Management Server\Server\bin\Microsoft.ContentManagement.WebAuthor.dll