Date generator

With the help of this tool we can plan posting of project records.

The unlimited number of periods entering is supported. Cumulative percentage of number of posts for all the periods must be 100%.

The field "Post number" is informative and is being counted depending on the percentage entered by the user.

The field "Method of distribution" is responsible for the principle on which posts will be distributed by date:

• Evenly - the period will be divided into equal parts and the program will distribute posts evenly between these regions (with some offset to the left or right to avoid that posts are published in the same time). Example: if you have 30 posts and you specify a range of 30 days, the program will post every day one article

• Randomly controlled - program distributes posts more randomly, but makes sure that there were no big "holes" in article posting dates. Example: if you have 30 posts and you specify a range of 30 days, the result will be something like this (number = number of posts per day) 1 - 3 - 2 - 0 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 3 - 0 - 2 - 3 - 3 ... there is no rigid uniform distribution, the number of posts a day differs, but not very much.

• Completely random - program distributes posts completely random. It is quite possible that most of the posts will appear in any one period, so that the use of this option is recommended only for short period of time (preferably not more than 1-2 months)

The option Smart auto date is responsible for the settings of smart auto date when setting dates (for more details read below).

The “Keep order in project tree” option is responsible for the correspondence of the post publication dates with the project tree order. In other words, posts inside a category will be published on the site in the same order they are placed in Zebroid. If the option global is activated - then the order is not observed within the category, but within the entire project. In other words, the first article of the second category will be published only after the last article of the first category.

There is also a possibility to calculate the final period, depending on how many posts a day you want to publish. To do this, create period, specify the start date and the percentage of posts that will apply to this period, open the context menu and select "Calculate the period". A window in which you specify the desired number of days will appear. The program then calculates the end date and write it for that period. While calculation "Smart auto date" will be taken into account(if the option is enabled).

Smart Auto date

This mode allows eliminating of the post publication during the “unnatural time”. All the settings in this window are responsible for the time when you should not post messages.

Save settings as standard - with the help of this key saving of the current settings as standard is made. It means that these settings will be used in new projects as default.