- point in time the edition became visible to the public on the website. Updated for major changes
- used to sort documents in the atom feed
- for building
change_history
on a document - used when comparing edition published dates in scopes on Edition (e.g.
published_before(date)
) - set to
first_public_at
ormajor_change_published_at
on every save
- signifies when the document was 'first published', which may be before the public timestamp. E.g. transitioned content, etc.
- Either user supplied on the form, or set during publishing to the
major_change_published_at
timestamp
first_published_at
on Editionopening_at
on Consultation
- date of the last major change. Major changes require change notes. This is decided by the user.