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Jon Ingersoll

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 (permalink)

I'm trying to display the start and end times on the EventView control. I've read in other posts that you need to put them in via the DateFormat property under advanced settings.

I've set the formatting to: MMMM dd, yyyy hh:mm tt but still no dates.

I also found this little gem:

    
            The EventsView control was not designed to handle date and time. So when you apply the date format it erases the time. What you could do is to add custom meta field with DateTime type and display it. 
        
            Kind regards, 
        
            Nikolay 
        
            the Telerik team

I find that absolutely staggering. How does the Events module not handle times? When you create an event you give it both start and end times. Most events don't last exactly one day, the last for a portion of that day. If outlook calendar didn't allow for times no one would use it.

Has this issue be resolved yet? If the eventsview module still can't handle times then I feel it is a rather useless module.

-Jon

Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 (permalink)

Hello Jon Ingersoll,

The EventsView has a TextSettings control that can be used to set the Label format but not the date format. If you want to have a custom date format as this one you specified you should do the following.

1. Map TextSettingsTemplate.ascx located under ExternalTemplates/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Generic_Content

2. Modify the Panel control with ID="dateTimeFormatPanel" by adding a new Listitem to the DropDownList control. The Value of your ListItem should be the date format.

sample:

    
              <asp:Panel ID="dateTimeFormatPanel" runat="server">  
        
                        <asp:Label ID="lbl3" runat="server" Text="Date format" AssociatedControlID="dateTimeFieldFormat"></asp:Label>  
        
                        <asp:DropDownList ID="dateTimeFieldFormat" runat="server">  
        
                        <asp:ListItem Value="dd/MM/yyyy" Text="dd/MM/yyyy" />  
        
                        </asp:DropDownList>  
        
                        <p class="example">Example</p>  
        
                    </asp:Panel>

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
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Jon Ingersoll

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 (permalink)

I'm not quite sure what this code is supposed to accomplish. Is this to add a custom date format to the drop down of formats in the EventView settings?

I'm still very confused as to why the form for creating events lets you specify times and the EventView doesn't display them without us having to jump through hoops.

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Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 (permalink)

Hello Jon Ingersoll,

The declaration is supposed to add a new data format in the DropDown of EventsView. This should do the trick. We found some problems setting DateFormat property from the advanced tab of EventsView control.

Greetings,
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Jon Ingersoll

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 (permalink)

That did the trick, thanks.

Is there a page somewhere that shows examples of valid date time formatting strings?

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Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 (permalink)

Hello Jon Ingersoll,

You can take a look at MSDN - Date and Time Format Strings. The way that the standard date and time format strings are shown depends on the culture as well.

Sincerely yours,
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Ian

Posted on Nov 10, 2009 (permalink)

Hi guys,

Please can you tell me where to map the template with an example? I am having this exact problem but can't get it to work.

Many thanks.

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Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Nov 10, 2009 (permalink)

Hi Ian,

1. Login to your account.
2. Download the external templates zip archive for the version yo use.
3. In the zip you will download - App_Data you will find a sample ControlsConfig file which has all host types you need to know when map a template.
4. Get the template TextSettingsTemplate as described in the previous post.
5. Create a sample ControlsConfig file under App_Data.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<controlsConfig>

<viewMap>

<viewSettings hostType="Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.Design.Settings.TextSetting" layoutTemplatePath="~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Generic_Content/TextSettingTemplate.ascx" />

</controlsConfig>

</viewMap>

6. Restart the application and follow the steps from the previous post.

Best wishes,
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Scott Rozman

Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (permalink)

I've just implemented this and the result on the public side was what I wanted.
However, in my drop down list, I had
h:mm tt ddd, MMM d, yyyy
as my choice vs. an example of current time with that formatting applied.

I added

<script runat="server" language="C#">

    void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

    {

        liDateWithTime.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm tt ddd, MMM d, yyyy");

    }

</script>

and added an ID to my ListItem.

<asp:ListItem ID="liDateWithTime" Value="h:mm tt ddd, MMM d, yyyy" Text="" />

Now my drop down list shows a more friendly version.
i.e. 4:30 PM Thu, Feb 4, 2010

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Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Feb 5, 2010 (permalink)

Hello Scott Rozman,

It is good to hear that everything works fine for you. Case closed.

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Laura Master

Posted on Mar 18, 2010 (permalink)

How do I display a date and a time with "at" such as
March 25, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Can I do that all in one select item? In other words, can I insert the word "at" into the value of the ListItem like this?
Of course this doesn't work because it is seeing the a and t as date/time formats.
<asp:ListItem Value="MMMM d, yyyy at h:mm tt" Text="March, 18, 2010 at 2:00 p.m." />

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Laura Master

Posted on Mar 18, 2010 (permalink)

Sorry - I got it. DUH. - use a backslash

MMMM d, yyyy a\t h:mm tt

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James@Nw Master

Posted on Mar 18, 2011 (permalink)

Hi Guys,

We've mapped the blog module on our home page so that we can skin it the way we like as follows:

~/Sitefinity/MappedTemplates/Blogs/ContentViewItemList.ascx

What we need now is to change the date format from this

28 February 2011.

to this:

28 Feb '11

In the mapped control, I can see where the date is pulling in:

<p class="sf_postDate">
<telerik:DateTimeLiteral ID="Publication_Date" runat="server" DateFormatString="dd MMM yyyy" /></telerik:DateTimeLiteral>
</p>

What's happening in SF is that the blog post has been published as 14 February 2011 and yet in my mapped control the order is incorrect. What I have had to do is to turn it around so that it reads yy MMM dd for it show correctly.

Although this is not a train smash, we still need the apostrophe so that it reads as 28 Feb '11

Thanks

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Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Mar 18, 2011 (permalink)

Hello James@Nw,

You can get the data item from the repater control that is inside the template and set get the metadata for the Publication_Date. Then you can use String.Format to show the desired date format.

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James@Nw Master

Posted on Mar 22, 2011 (permalink)

Hi Ivan,

Can you please elaborate a bit more?

Where do I get the data item from the repeater control and how do I set the metadata for the Publication_Date?

Can you give me an example of this please?

Thanks

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James@Nw Master

Posted on Mar 22, 2011 (permalink)

Hi Ivan

I am trying to follow your instructions.

Do you mean that I should change this?

<telerik:DateTimeLiteral ID="Publication_Date" runat="server" DateFormatString="yy MMM dd" /></telerik:DateTimeLiteral>

And what do I change this too? How do I add the String.Format?

Thanks

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Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

Posted on Mar 22, 2011 (permalink)

Hello James@Nw,

The repeater is bound the IContent objects. You can access them from the repeater and use GetMetaData("Publication_Date"). In the template you can add a new label and set its Text using the String.Format

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James@Nw Master

Posted on Mar 22, 2011 (permalink)

Hi Ivan,

This still doesn't make sense to me as my .Net skills do not extend to what you are suggesting but I am willing to learn from what you're saying.

I am adding my file for you here if you could please add the changes you have suggested so that I know what you are referring to.

http://www.zendump.com/download.php?file=4b246e0aa3320b18a7b4f27c7f7b646e

Thanks

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James@Nw Master

Posted on Mar 23, 2011 (permalink)

Hi Ivan,

It seems there is some confusion here. I am trying to implement this date change in two different ways.

1. According the instructions I am seeing in this post.
2. According to instruction coming from this post http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/bugs-issues/problems-changing-the-date-and-time-for-blog-entries.aspx

The latter, allows me to create a drop down option for a date format but even if I implement this, it does not work.

I'd appreciate a definitive answer on what the better method is to change the date format so that we can get this resolved please.

Many thanks,
James

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