Custom Date Format in CMS dialogs

[Kenan Salic]

Hi Guys,

I got a customer which finds it problematic to see the dates, well especially times in the CMS because of "privacy" reasons.

I have the following dialog:

So I looked up the class:

org.hippoecm.frontend.editor.workflow.dialog.DocumentMetadataDialog

private static final String DATE_STYLE = "MS";

publicationMetadata.add(new DocumentMetadataEntry(getString("creationdate"),

private String formattedCalendarByStyle(Calendar calendar, String patternStyle) {
    if (calendar != null) {
        DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forStyle(patternStyle).withLocale(getLocale());
        return dtf.print(new DateTime(calendar));
    }
    return StringUtils.EMPTY;
}

Well this looks pretty hardcoded.

What would the most efficient way be to hide the time? 

It can be a JS solution as well, but it has been problematic injecting the right code at the right time (at initialization of this dialog) without some kind of timer functionality.

Cheers,

K

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[Bert Leunis]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Kenan Salic <k.s...@onehippo.com> wrote:

Hi Guys,

I got a customer which finds it problematic to see the dates, well especially times in the CMS because of "privacy" reasons.

I have the following dialog:

So I looked up the class:

org.hippoecm.frontend.editor.workflow.dialog.DocumentMetadataDialog

private static final String DATE_STYLE = "MS";

publicationMetadata.add(new DocumentMetadataEntry(getString("creationdate"),

private String formattedCalendarByStyle(Calendar calendar, String patternStyle) {
    if (calendar != null) {
        DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forStyle(patternStyle).withLocale(getLocale());
        return dtf.print(new DateTime(calendar));
    }
    return StringUtils.EMPTY;
}

Well this looks pretty hardcoded.

What would the most efficient way be to hide the time? 

In this project, override the DocumentMetadataDialog and use your own date format will be the easiest way. You can also update the code so it can also read the dateformat from configuration. Please notice that columns in the document overviews also show the last modified date and publication date. You will see those in the Advanced search overview also and might want to change them there too.
 

It can be a JS solution as well, but it has been problematic injecting the right code at the right time (at initialization of this dialog) without some kind of timer functionality.

Cheers,

K

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[Kenan Salic]

Thank you Bert! I'll try to see what I can do in my time. Making it configurable would be a cool addition. 

Cheers