Once you have generated and reviewed your posts in Archie, you can schedule and publish them without leaving the Archie interface. Every post flows into the same Agorapulse publishing calendar you already use, so your Archie-generated content sits alongside the rest of your scheduled content.
In this article, we will cover:
Please Note: Archie is available to users on all current plans. However, publishing features follow your existing Agorapulse plan. If you would like to change your plan to access specific publishing features, feel free to reach out to us here.
How publishing works in Archie
Archie and Agorapulse share the same publisher. Posts you create in Archie are scheduled and published to the same calendar you already use in Agorapulse. This means:
Your Archie-generated content appears alongside your other scheduled posts in the Agorapulse calendar.
You can manage all of your scheduled content from one place.
All standard Agorapulse publishing features, including approval workflows, assignees, and labels, are available.
How to schedule a post in Archie
After reviewing your generated posts, you can schedule any post for publication directly from Archie.
To schedule a post in Archie, please follow the steps below:
Click on Archie in the left navigation menu
Select either:
An ongoing conversation
OrThe New conversation button and follow the steps listed here to generate a post
Click the Drafts tab at the top right of the page
To the right of the post that you would like to schedule, click the Calendar button
A window will open, and you will be given the following options to schedule your post:
Optimal times: Archie will determine the best time to publish your post based on your selected scheduling strategy; the available options are Every weekday, Twice a week, 3 times a week, Every other day, or Once a week. Once you have decided your scheduling strategy, select a date that you would like your post to start from, and then click Compute Best Times.
Custom: Manually enter the date you would like to publish your post by clicking on the Calendar icon to the right of your post under Selected posts.
Once you have set a date and time for your post, it will appear in the calendar on the right side of the window, represented as a blue dot, and if there are other posts already scheduled, they will be represented as a grey dot. You can click on an individual day to see which posts are scheduled for that day.
Finally, click Schedule to schedule your post to your Agorapulse calendar.
How to bulk-schedule multiple posts
When you generate multiple posts from a single source, you can bulk schedule multiple posts together instead of one at a time. This is useful when you repurpose a single piece of content, such as a webinar, into a week's worth of posts across multiple platforms.
Please note: If posts were generated for multiple social networks, you can only bulk schedule posts for one social network at a time.
To bulk schedule your posts:
From the Drafts tab, check the box next to each post that you would like to schedule
Note: You can check the box next to the name of the social network to select all of the generated posts for that social networkClick Schedule
A window will open, and you will be given the following options to schedule your posts:
Optimal times: Archie will determine the best time to publish your posts based on your selected scheduling strategy; the available options are Every weekday, Twice a week, 3 times a week, Every other day, or Once a week. Once you have decided your scheduling strategy, select a date that you would like your posts to start from, and then click Compute Best Times.
Custom: Manually enter the dates you would like to publish your posts by clicking on the Calendar icon to the right of your post under Selected posts.
Once you have set a date and time for your posts, they will appear in the calendar on the right side of the window, represented as a blue dot, and if there are other posts already scheduled, they will be represented as a grey dot. You can click on an individual day to see which posts are scheduled for that day.
Finally, click Schedule to schedule your posts to your Agorapulse calendar.
Note: Before scheduling your posts, if you would like to change the order that your posts are published, you can click on the 6 horizontal dots to drag and drop your posts into the desired order.
How to save a post as a draft
If a post is not ready to publish yet, you can save it as a draft and finalize it later. Posts can be saved as a draft either individually or in bulk.
To save a post as a draft:
From the Drafts tab, click on Create a draft to the right of the post
(Optional) Set a date and time for this draft
Note: Draft posts that have been given a date and time will appear in your Publishing Calendar, but will not be publishedClick Create Draft
To save multiple posts as a draft in bulk:
From the Drafts tab, check the box next to each post that you would like to save as drafts
Note: You can check the box below the name of the social network to select all of the generated posts for that social networkClick Save as draft
Note: When saving posts as drafts in bulk, a date and time cannot be selected
These posts will now appear in your Drafts in the left navigation menu.
Please Note: While you are working in a session, your content is private, and other team members cannot see it. Once you save a post as a draft or schedule it, the post becomes visible to your team in the Agorapulse calendar.
How to assign a post from Archie
Generated posts from Archie can be assigned to internal and external users. Posts assigned from Archie follow the same approval process as other posts.
Please note: Posts cannot be assigned in bulk from Archie.
You can assign a post from Archie by:
From the Drafts tab, click on Assign post to the right of the post
Select one or more internal or external users to assign the post to
Note: External users will display the name of their Shared Calendar below their name
Select a date to schedule the post
(Optional) Under Comment, add a note for the assigned users
Click Assign
What happens after publishing
Once a post is published, Agorapulse tracks its performance through the same measurement tools you use for every other post.
After a post goes live:
It appears in your Agorapulse Analytics like any other published post.
Engagement, including likes, comments, and shares, is tracked in your Agorapulse Inbox and Listening features.
Performance data feeds back into Agorapulse's reporting tools.
Please note: There is currently no separate tracking in Archie. Everything happens through Agorapulse's existing measurement tools. You will soon be able to track performance for posts published specifically through Archie within your Agorapulse reports.