Metadata date field format?

MediaBin 4.5.3

We are getting a lot of user complaints for the date/time fields. Is there a way we can specify a different format, i.e. (MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY). Entering time is not anything we need or care about.

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msrinivas

You dont need to enter time. If you do not enter anything it will default to 12:00:00 AM

HTH

Bill Klish

Good to know. Can I change the date format to only month and year instead of all? If not, is that a feature request?

msrinivas

I don't think that is possible. I am not sure if they will even take up a FR on that. Worth a try!

Bill Klish

Ok. I didn't explain correctly.

We have an insertion task that we are letting the users enter metadata. one of those fields is a date time and it gives an error if time is not entered. So, I am guessing there is no way around that either.

Not a great user experience.

msrinivas

If you have run time parameters you can always have it to default to some value (default value of metadata) so that the user doesn't have to enter a value always (at least the time part)

HTH

Bill Klish

Great. That helped a little bit. They still want the other date formats, so I will put a feature request in.

kisnak

Great. That helped a little bit. They still want the other date formats, so I will put a feature request in.

Hi you can try this,following is the code in dateDemo.ipl file which is called from medata cfg file

$my output;
my @months = qw(01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12);
($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $dayOfWeek, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = gmtime();
$year = 1900 + $yearOffset;
my $theTimeFormat="$year-$months[$month]-$dayOfMonth $hour:$minute";

$output="\n";
$output.="\n";
$output.="\n";
$output.="$theTimeFormat\n";
$output.="\n";
$output.="\n";
$output.="\n";
$output.="\n";
print $output;

and in metadata datacapture.cfg file use the following code

Publish Date and Time (GMT)

To ensure global collaboration across different time zones the publish date must be entered as a GMT time. \nGMT may be different from your local time. Input format is: yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm

command="/iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/dateDemo.ipl publishDate" />

kisnak

Great. That helped a little bit. They still want the other date formats, so I will put a feature request in.

Hi you can try this,following is the code in dateDemo.ipl file which is called from medata cfg file

$my output;
my @months = qw(01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12);
($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $dayOfWeek, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = gmtime();
$year = 1900 + $yearOffset;
my $theTimeFormat="$year-$months[$month]-$dayOfMonth $hour:$minute";

$output="substitution\n";
$output.="text required = \"t\" size=\"16\" maxlength=\"16\" \n";
$output.="default\n";
$output.="$theTimeFormat\n";
$output.="/default\n";
$output.="cgi-callout url=\"/iw-bin/er_calendar_callout.ipl\" label=\"Show Calendar...\" window-features=\"width=200,height=230,resizable=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,titlebar=no\" /\n";
$output.="/text\n";
$output.="/substitution\n";
print $output;

and in metadata datacapture.cfg file use the following code

item name="Teamsite/Metadata/md.publishDate"
label>Publish Date and Time (GMT)/label>
description>
To ensure global collaboration across different time zones the publish date must be entered as a GMT time. \nGMT may be different from your local time. Input format is: yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm
/description>
inline
command="/iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/dateDemo.ipl publishDate" />
/item>

kisnak

Hi you can try this,following is the code in dateDemo.ipl file which is called from medata cfg file

$my output;
my @months = qw(01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12);
($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $dayOfWeek, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = gmtime();
$year = 1900 + $yearOffset;
my $theTimeFormat="$year-$months[$month]-$dayOfMonth $hour:$minute";

$output="substitution\n";
$output.="text required = \"t\" size=\"16\" maxlength=\"16\" \n";
$output.="default\n";
$output.="$theTimeFormat\n";
$output.="/default\n";
$output.="cgi-callout url=\"/iw-bin/er_calendar_callout.ipl\" label=\"Show Calendar...\" window-features=\"width=200,height=230,resizable=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,titlebar=no\" /\n";
$output.="/text\n";
$output.="/substitution\n";
print $output;

and in metadata datacapture.cfg file use the following code

item name="Teamsite/Metadata/md.publishDate"
label>Publish Date and Time (GMT)/label>
description>
To ensure global collaboration across different time zones the publish date must be entered as a GMT time. \nGMT may be different from your local time. Input format is: yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm
/description>
inline
command="/iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/dateDemo.ipl publishDate" />
/item>

you can convert into any format in the dateDemo.ipl file . I have not pasted the conversion code, but it is easy to do.
good luck

msrinivas

Bzzzzzz........this is MB and not TS

lyman

The conversion is done client-side (not server-side) and so it should be subject to customization (says the server guy...).

Cheers,

Lyman Hurd