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The digest schedule decides when Spark posts the day’s stories to your Slack channel. The default is 9:00 AM in the America/New_York timezone. Change the timezone to match where your community lives.
Before you start
  • Slack must be connected and a delivery channel picked. See Connect Slack if you haven’t set it up yet.
  • At least one category must be active. See Set up categories.

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Where the schedule lives

The schedule controls live in the News page header, not under Settings. Open News and look at the digest title. To the right of the title:
  • Automatic daily publishing is on. You’ll see an auto chip with a pencil icon to edit the time and a Turn Off button.
  • Automatic publishing is off. You’ll see a manual Publish to Slack button. To switch on automatic delivery, use the schedule prompt in the news view (above the digest).

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Set the time and timezone

1

Open the schedule dialog

From the News page header, click the pencil icon next to the auto chip (when on), or click Change Time in the off-state alert to open the schedule dialog. Inside the dialog, click Enable auto-publish to save.
2

Pick the hour, minute, and AM/PM

The dialog uses a 12-hour clock. Minutes are selectable in 15-minute increments: :00, :15, :30, :45.
3

Pick the timezone

The timezone picker lists common timezones (US, Europe, Asia, Australia/NZ) with the current short-name abbreviation alongside each. Search by city to narrow the list.
4

Save

Click Enable auto-publish (first-time setup) or Save (changing an existing schedule). Spark recomputes the next delivery slot based on the new time and timezone immediately.

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Defaults

New workspaces start with:
  • Time: 9:00 AM
  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Max items per digest: 10
Spark caps each digest at 10 stories so the Slack message stays within Slack’s per-message size limit.

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Turn off automatic publishing

Click Turn Off on the News page header to switch back to manual publishing. With auto-publish off, the digest still gets curated daily, but it waits in the News page until you click Publish to Slack yourself. Use manual mode when you want to review or edit each day’s selection before it goes out.