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Freemarker + current date

simon

Hi there,

I'm building a Freemarker template with the whole folder structure to have an administrative overview of our Alfresco system. I need the current date in the following expression:

<#assign modifiedToday=""><#if "2006.05.08" == childnode.properties.modified?string("yyyy.MM.dd")>
…do something…
</#if>‍‍‍

Freemarker is a templating language so there is no such thing as "today". Is there some exposed variable in Alfresco I could use?

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kevinr

I also noticed this strange lack of a Date object in FreeMarker and added it to the Alfresco templating data-model. So the current date (as a new Date() Java object) can be accessed in a template as the "date" object in the root of the model. For example:

<#assign datetimeformat="EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz">
${date?string(datetimeformat)}
‍‍‍‍

Hope this helps,

Kevin

simon

Perfect, this is exactly what I needed! Thanks Kevin.

stk137

does this date get created on each call within a template or just once?
It looks like it's just once as all my times are the same.

I am trying to debug a long running custom view template and see which queries are taking how long. I was printing the time including milliseconds before and after each, but there are all identical

How can I get accomplish this?

thx

I also noticed this strange lack of a Date object in FreeMarker and added it to the Alfresco templating data-model. So the current date (as a new Date() Java object) can be accessed in a template as the "date" object in the root of the model. For example:
<#assign datetimeformat="EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz">
${date?string(datetimeformat)}
‍‍‍‍
Hope this helps,

Kevin

kevinr

A new Date() object is created at the start of each template execution, it is not dynamically generated each time you use it on the page.

To add a dynamic Date object, you can configure in a custom class that does what you want:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Template_Guide#Custom_Root_Objects

Thanks,

Kevin