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Show a block only between dates

For
church staff
Status
Available
Last reviewed
On this page
  1. Set a block’s dates
  2. How you’ll know
  3. How exact is it?
  4. Good to know
  5. What DCX support can do

Any block on a page can be set to appear and disappear on its own: an Easter banner from Palm Sunday to Easter Monday, a camp sign-up until registration closes, a “We’re live” link at 10:00 on Sunday. You set it once and publish the page; there’s no need to come back and publish again when the time comes.

For a livestream every week, use the Live now block instead: it follows your weekly service times. See Live now.

Set a block’s dates

  1. Open the page under Website, then choose Edit on the block.
  2. Under When visitors see it, choose Between dates. (Always is the default: the block shows whenever the page is published.)
  3. Fill in either or both ends:
    • Show from and Show from time: when it appears. A date with no time means from the start of that day.
    • Show until (“the last day it shows”) and Show until time (“it is hidden from this time”): when it goes. A date with no time means it shows all of that day.
    • Leave Show from empty for “from now”, or Show until empty for “until I change it”.
  4. Press Done, then Save changes, then Publish.

The dates and times are on your church’s clock (its time zone, shown in the form), whatever time zone you or your visitors are in.

How you’ll know

The block’s card on the Content tab says when it shows, such as “Shows Mar 26 – Mar 29”, “Shows from Mar 30” or “Shows until Apr 6”, with a label when visitors can’t see it right now:

  • Scheduled: its time hasn’t come yet.
  • Hidden now: its time has passed.

In Preview, a block that visitors can’t see right now is still shown to you, with the note “Scheduled: hidden for visitors now”, so you can check it before it goes live.

How exact is it?

To the second. A block set to appear at 10:00 appears for the first visitor who opens the page at or after 10:00:00, and goes at its end time in the same way. Your website is checked against the clock on every visit, and browsers are told not to keep an old copy of the page past the moment a block appears or goes.

Changes you make to the dates themselves reach visitors once you publish, within about 30 seconds.

Good to know

  • Visitors never see a hidden block, or when it is scheduled to appear. It isn’t hidden by the browser; it isn’t sent to them.
  • An end before the start is refused, with a message saying so.
  • Any block can have dates: banners, forms, embeds, service times, anything.
  • Daylight saving time is handled: 10:00 is 10:00 on the day the clocks change.

What DCX support can do

With your permission, DCX support can look at a page with you in a support session and check a block’s dates and your church’s time zone. Your church’s time zone is set when DCX creates your church; ask DCX support if it is wrong.