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  • Andrew Blackmore 84 posts 127 karma points
    Feb 10, 2010 @ 21:59
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    Adding Date to Page Title

    I believe this is very simple, but for some reason, I'm not getting this to work. I am making a template for a blog within Umbraco and I am using the following code for my title

     

           <title>
                <umbraco:Item Field="pageName" runat="server" insertTextAfter=" - "></umbraco:Item>
                <umbraco:Item Field="blogName" recursive="true" runat="server" insertTextAfter=" - "></umbraco:Item>
          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime($currentPage/@createDate, 'MMM d, yyyy')"/>
            </title>

    The first two lines work perfectly. The third line does not. I followed the example in the API Cheatsheet and only changed how the date should be formatted and that I wanted to use createDate instead of updateDate.

     

    A little bit confused here. New to Umbraco and XSLT so hopefully is a simple misunderstanding.

     

    Thanks.

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  • Chris Koiak 700 posts 2626 karma points
    Feb 10, 2010 @ 22:07
    Chris Koiak
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    Hi Andrew,

    You cannot have xslt directly on a template. A template is a standard .NET masterpage and can only have ;NET controls. However you can use inline xslt on the Item control.

    The following line should work

    <umbraco:Item runat="server" field="createDate" xslt="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime({0}, 'MMM d, yyyy')" />

    Cheers,

    Chris

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  • Andrew Blackmore 84 posts 127 karma points
    Feb 12, 2010 @ 15:28
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    Thanks a lot Chris! That worked perfectly and also helped me understand how all this works a lot better. So if I have this straight -

     

    templates are .NET pages and the xslt is either contained like you have shown or used via macros?

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  • Chris Koiak 700 posts 2626 karma points
    Feb 12, 2010 @ 18:57
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    Yep, completely correct!

    (the only third option for xslt is to use http://our.umbraco.org/projects/xsltresult... but this really just extends the xslt ability of 'umbraco:item')

    Also, if you're a .NET developer you should notice that you can put standard .NET controls directly onto the template, rather than embedding it via a macro.

     

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