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tripp-bishop
Mentor
12 years ago

Customize date format of messge-list OOB component

Hi guys,   Is there anyway to customize the date format used in the "Latest Post" column of the message-list of the component? I know that I can choose a format from the Admin plugin but I need a f...
tripp-bishop's avatar
tripp-bishop
Mentor
12 years ago

I suspected that this was the answer but thought that I'd ask anyways just in case there was something easy I was missing.

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jferrandis
Expert
10 years ago

Hi

 

You can make a custom component to control the date format. It's some quite easy develpment. 

 

tips: use the context to get the message

 

example:

<#-- check if you are in a message context -->
<#if env.context.message.uniqueId??>
<#-- make your query -->
<#assign postTimeDataQuery = rest("2.0","/search?q=" + "SELECT post_time FROM messages WHERE id = '${env.context.message.uniqueId?c}'"?url) />

<#if postTimeDataQuery.status =="success" && postTimeDataQuery.data.size gt 0  ><#-- make sure you have some result -->
<#-- now you can format date --> 
<#assign myFormattedDate = postTimeDataQuery.data.items[0].post_time?myCustomFormat
<span class="foo"><${myFormattedDate}</span>

</#if>

</#if>

Here is the available builts-in for date in freemarker