What happened?

When you create an menu item for single article and want to select an article, users cannot see the difference between active and expired articles. All published articles display a green checkmark, including expired articles.

This is technically correct: expired articles are published.
But when selecting an expired article the menu link results in a 404.

Due to the green checkmark users expect the selected article to be published and active.

Joomla has a feature where users can edit an article when creating/editing a menu item.

When an expired article displays the expired icon (circle with a dash), users know the article is expired and if they do want to use it they can edit the articles finish date while working on the menu item.

1. Have an article that is expired
2. Create a menu item of type Single Article
3. Search for your expired article

Notice the green checkmark (published) in front of the article.

4. Select the expired article and save the menu item.
5. In the frontend your new link results in a 404.

Version

6.0

Expected result

Expired articles to display the expired icon.

Actual result

Expired articles display the published icon.

System Information

Joomla 5.4 / 6.0
PHP 8.4
MySQL 8.0.33

Additional Comments

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