What's new: a date that actually schedules, schedule rules you can delete, and every list opening from the name

A few things landed this week. The first one changes what the date field in New Post does, so it's worth a read even if you skip the rest.

Filling in a date now schedules the post

Set a Planned Date in New Post and the button changes to Schedule. One submit creates the post and puts it on the calendar.

Until now that date was only a note to yourself. The post stayed a draft, nothing ever published it, and to actually schedule it you had to find the post again and enter the same date a second time. If your brand requires approval before publishing, the button sends the post for review instead — same single submit.

Drafts you planned before this change are still drafts. Open one and schedule it to put it on the calendar.

Schedule rules: more times, a real delete, and a page of their own

A rule can now hold up to 24 posting times a day instead of five — one per hour.

Archiving a rule is no longer a one-way door: archived rules can be restored, and a rule you're finished with can be deleted outright. Deleting is refused only while a workflow still uses it, so you'll be told what's in the way rather than losing a rule something depends on.

Each rule also has its own page now instead of a stack of dialogs. Open it from Settings → Schedules to read the next five times it will fire, and edit it there.

Lists open from the name

Every table in the app now opens from the name in the row — Analytics, Articles, Product Catalog, Workflows, Brand Brain, Content Plan's Series, your media assets, connected accounts and schedules included. The small eye icon at the end of the row is gone. The thing you were already looking at is the link.

Room to work on a phone

Scroll past the top of a page and the menu button now follows you: a round button in the bottom-left corner opens the navigation from anywhere, instead of scrolling back up to reach it.

Filter bars on Analytics, Articles and a product's detail page fold behind a Filters button on a narrow screen, with a count of how many you have switched on. Content Plan's export dialog now fits a phone without scrolling sideways.

What a post will actually do

Open a scheduled, published or failed LinkedIn post and you can now see its First comment — including a note when your Link URL is the thing being posted there automatically. A Pinterest post names the board it lands on, beside the account.

Both were previously invisible until after the post had gone out.