[opencms-dev] injecting Publish Date/Timestamp into page

[Christoph Kukulies]

Hi Bernd,

nice idea. Do you happen to know which element to access to obtain the 
GetDateLastModified().
It looks like it's in CmsCntPageData.


Am 07.08.2014 12:43, schrieb ] Code Create [:
> Hi Chris,
>
> why don't you simply use "getDateLastModified".
> Because, if it is not published it doesn't matter.
> If it is published the date last modified should be fine if there is not
> a too great time span in between. If there is you could just refresh the
> resource prior to publishing it.
>
> Me, I use an extra schema field/property to set a real publication date
> (date issued).
> Because I don't want to have this "issued date" changed, just because I
> republish a resource for technical reasons, like orthography errors, or
> if you have to republish the whole site for some other reason ... all
> publish dates would be the same ...; i assume, that's not what you want.
>
> For the same reason I have an extra field/property for the last edit
> date too :D
>
> All the best, Bernd
>
> Am 07.08.2014 11:58, schrieb Christoph Kukulies:
>> I'm seeking for a means to insert the date/time a page was published
>> last time so that one can read e.g. at the bottom of a
>> page something like "last edit Aug, 7th, 2014".
>>
>> I found some suggestion in a stackoverflow thread
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14338306/how-to-get-last-published-date-from-a-cmsresource-in-opencms>:
>>
>> |public static Date getLastPublishedDate(CmsJspActionElement cms, CmsResource resource) throws Exception {
>>      CmsObject cmso = cms.getCmsObject();
>>      String sitePath = cmso.getSitePath(resource);
>>
>>      if (cmso.readAllAvailableVersions(sitePath).size() > 0) {
>>          I_CmsHistoryResource histRes = cmso.readAllAvailableVersions(sitePath).get(0);
>>          int publishTag = histRes.getPublishTag();
>>          CmsHistoryProject project = cmso.readHistoryProject(publishTag);
>>          return new Date(project.getPublishingDate());
>>      } else {
>>          return null;
>>      }
>> }
>>
>> I'm wondering whether it could be accomplished in another way.
>>
>> --
>> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de
>> |
>>

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