unpublish

Hello all,

I am new to rules (and Drupal for that matter.)

Rules, Tokens, views (installed and enabled)

I've successfully created rules to notify users by email when comments were added or when new nodes are created but I am having difficulty with this new task.

I created a custom content and added a field for "expiration date." I'd like to create a rule that would unpublish the content after the date in the expiration date field for the content. It seems like it should be a fairly straight forward task, but it is getting the best of me.

I want to add a workflow for unpublished content using Rules.
scenario is like this:

1.The normal user can request to unpublish content.

2.A mail wiil go to admin & editor that "xyz content is pending for unpublish"

3.Admin will review it & whtever action will take.

Now here in point 1, I want to create an event " request for unpublish content"

I referred this post but my idea is not clear for this case
http://drupal.org/node/298549

in short i need action "pre unpublish" like we have presave.

any suggestion ....guys...??

I've been trying to find a way to use the Rules module to unpublish all of an author's nodes if his/her role is changed to a non-author role. But I'm having trouble finding the right variables in the rules module.

Anyone have any advice on how to go about getting this set up?

Thanks.

I am building a web site using Drupal 6.12 (plus the most recent stable releases of token, CCK, Rules and views) and am trying to create a rule that automatically unpublishes content based on the cck date field (generated by the Date API 'date' sub-module).