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Just to be sure: you want to display the publication start and end date from the items, i.e. from the pages or paragraphs, right?

Whoops, I hit the send button a little too soon …

Currently, this publication dates are not available when rendering items, but maybe they should be. Right now, you have to create a publication date field on your item type and show that. This will also make it possible to sort the news items by publication date.

Actually, news items in the News V2 module also has a Date field (see http://goo.gl/A8kYsU) that is separate from the publication start and end dates.

Best regards,
Mikkel


 

Thanks for your reply, Mikkel.

Each news "article" exists as a page item (because it makes a lot of sense, and creating categories based on standard navigation is easy).

What I want, is to output the value from the publication start date from each page item (see screenshot) in the item publisher.

Below is the basic idea of how I want it to look. It's a global news list, showing the latest five published news. Actually, I did try to create my own publication logic with custom fields, but it quickly became very messy, and I decided it was silly not to simply use the standard functionality for page publication, when it's already in place. I also don't think it makes much sense that to force the content editor to input two publication dates which are the same.

You will need a publication date field on your item type in order to sort the items by publication date – and I assume you want to do this.

If you're using Razor, you can get the item page activation date like this:

@{
var page = Dynamicweb.Content.Page.GetPageById(item.GetInteger("ItemPublisher:Item.Field.PageId"));
}

<span class="activation-date>"@page.ActiveFrom</span>

Hi Nikki,

These tags exposing activation and deactivation dates are now implemented in Dynamicweb 8.4.1.0

Kind Regards

Christian 

Hi Christian,

Sounds interesting. Does this mean that every item will have two dates related to them? Could you perhaps reveal tagnames and perhaps an example?

Med venlig hilsen/Best regards,

Sten Hougaard
Webudvikler

A: København/Aarhus . W: www.1stweb.dk
@: netsi1964

Implemented with 2 new tags for page items and two new tags for paragraph item:

@ItemPublisher:Item.PageActiveFrom
@ItemPublisher:Item.ParagraphValidFrom
@ItemPublisher:Item.PageActiveTo
@ItemPublisher:Item.ParagraphValidTo

Kind Regards. Christian

Hi,

Just dropping in on the conversation... why the difference in naming conventions... ActiveFrom vs. ValidFrom?

In my mind a bit messy, but a nice feature to have!

Hi,

We have now tried for a somewhat smarter solution. We only introduce 2 new tags:

 @ItemPublisher:Item.ActiveFrom and @ItemPublisher:Item.ActiveTo

These can be used for both pages and paragraphs.

Christian