[TW5] Created and Modified dates Missing

[TonyM]

Folks,

I made a nice empty file with some desirable settings and have used this as the basis of many tiddlywikis.

Only now I have discovered using modified and created dates is not working well because many tiddlers simply do not seem to have these fields.

Can anyone tell me

• what may have happened,
• how to fix it
• dealing with existing tiddlers.

This error could be a feature for the developer, prior to making a wiki public however its not good in a working wiki.

Thanks
Tony

[Mark S.]

I seem to recall that certain types of import do not create mod/create dates. If you create a brand new tiddler, does it not have the dates?

Good luck,
Mark

[RichardWilliamSmith]

Hi Tony,

Do you mean Tiddlers you have created yourself or system tiddlers? How did you notice that they don't have these fields?

I see that if I do

<$list filter="[!has[created]]">

</$list>

On Tiddlywiki.com, there are quite a few tiddlers without a created date. How to fix it depends on what you want. It's pretty easy to give them all a dummy value.

<$button>
fix
<$list filter="[!has[created]]">
<$action-setfield created="20150117190213631"/>
</$list>
</$button>

"20150117190213631" doesn't have any special significance - it's just the value mentioned in the 'Date Fields' tiddler.

You can naturally do the same with the modified field.

Regards,

Richard

[TonyM]

First I wondered why many, but not all tiddlers, did not have a subtitle with dates

Then some date related sort order and the recent tiddlers view was always missing recent toddlers.

I just created a new Item from the SideBar + and it has no subtitle and appears in the "[!has[created]]" list.

Thanks for the tip and button. I will set them all then try and observer when they happen. I create a lot using the new hear (tiddler button).

To think all my wikis have this. ?

Tony

How to fix it depends on what you want. It's pretty easy to give them all a dummy value.

[Ton Gerner]

Hi Tony,

Under the Tools tab there is a Timestamps button: Choose whether modifications update timestamps.
Be sure 'Timestamps are on' is shown.

Cheers,

Ton

[TonyM]

Ton,

Thanks, I thought I had seen that somewhere but could not find it.

sidebar > Tools > Time stamps are on/off

It is in someway a little misplaced, surely it should be on the control panel > Info > Basics page?

Regards
Tony

[Ton Gerner]

Hi Tony,

Yes, I agree: it's a bit tricky over there. In the past I toggled it by accident and it took me a long time before I knew what was going on.

Cheers,

Ton