Can I add a last updated or modified date to a page metatag?

Thanks Jason - I'll chat with Starhub around the update below and come back to you.

J

Hey Jason,

We've followed the freemarker code example, however we're having some issues dynamically getting the topic id - below is some feedback from the developer that is working across this, would really appreciate any assistance you can provide.

On the timestamp component we're fine.

Cheers, Jez

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the example given in Lithium is this one below, which is throwing an Exception

<#assign topic_id = page.context.thread.topicMessage.uniqueid />

To test if the rest of the code is working, I hard coded the "topic_id" as below

<#assign topic_id = 713 />

and it worked.

But you might notice, it always display the same time. So we need to dynamically get the "topic_id"

Below is the full Code

<#if page.name='ForumTopicPage'>

<#assign topic_id = page.context.thread.topicMessage.uniqueid />

<#assign last_edit_time = restadmin("/messages/id/${topic_id}/last_edit_time").value!"" />

<meta name = "last_updated" content="${last_edit_time}" >

</#if>  

Hi Jez,

My apologies ... typo ...  it should be uid:

<#if page.name='ForumTopicPage'>
<#assign topic_id = page.context.thread.topicMessage.uid />
<#assign last_edit_time = restadmin("/messages/id/${topic_id}/last_edit_time").value!"" />
<meta name = "last_updated" content="${last_edit_time}" >
</#if>  

 i just tried it out on test env, seems to be working 

Awesome, thanks Jason :)

I've fired off to the dev, will let you know how it goes.

J

Hey Jason,

We've successfully deployed a last_updated tag across message pages :)

What I'd like to do now is extend out to cover the other types of pages, such as board and category pages, eg;

http://community.starhub.com/t5/Ask-Kerastase/bd-p/Ask_Kerastase

http://community.starhub.com/t5/Ask-the-Beauty-Experts/ct-p/Ask_the_Beauty_Experts 

We did it to the "Forum Topic Page" by adding the following snippet in the "Page Head Content";

<#if page.name='ForumTopicPage'>

<#assign topic_id = page.context.thread.topicMessage.uniqueId />

<#assign last_edit_time = restadmin("/messages/id/${topic_id}/last_edit_time").value!"" />

<meta name = "last_updated" content="${last_edit_time}" >

</#if>

We found a list of page.names for Lithium, as follows;

• BlogArticlePage
• ContestSubmissionPage
• ForumTopicPage
• IdeaPage
• MobileForumTopicPage
• MobileGroupMessagePage
• GroupMessagePage
• CompletedIdeasPage
• QandAQuestionPage
• SupportCasePage
• TkbChooseTemplatePage

To apply the last_updated metatag across alternate pages do we need to only change the page.name to match the correct page type, or do we need to do more?

If we only need to update the page.name, what value do we use for a category (ct-p) and board (bd-p) page?

As a side through, can we cover all types of pages with a single code snippet?

Cheers, Jez