Setting document creation date as source while creating document using REST API

Hey All,

Looking for details how to set document creation date as source creation date using REST API.
Any insights on this would be helpful.

Thanks,
Prasad

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Abir Saha

Hi,
The create Date field is system default, it's taking the actual creation time(server time) from Content server.

In the create Node REST API there is a option for external create Date field . You can try with that one. I have never got a chance to use that.

There is another option, you can create one category/accommodate one field in existing category for the external create date . After addition of the document you will get the DataID as a response, with help of that you can trigger another REST API to run a webreport which will add the category to the document and update the category value as provided.

Pramod Mohandas

If memory serves right, SOAP web services also have the ability to set an External Create Date.

For REST API, you can take a look at the REST API documentation and set the external_create_date parameter to get the desired result.

There are additional attributes that you may choose to include into your payload depending on your business use-case.

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PPate

Thanks Pramod!

marimuthusundaraj

Thank you @PramodMohandas as you mentioned the date format working fine in postman.

In Java code also the same date format needs to be handled as below,

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd=HH:mm:ss");

categoryJson.put(category_attribute_id, sdf.format(new Date()).replace("=", "T"));

So that, the date format will be passed in proper format to Java http post request.

Formatted Date using Java code: 2020-09-02T13:30:00

After this date format, it is working fine with Java code too.