Re: [xwiki-users] Add date of account creation (without time) in User Index problem

On 01/13/2015 10:45 AM, Pascal BASTIEN wrote: I did not know that you can create class properties with a dot in it, and that this even can be used to get the original document property, but I see it indeed works This actually does not work, because the livetable ones not use the custom displayer at all, but treats 'doc.creationDate' special Possible solutions: 1) - create a "dummy" class property, which does *not* shadow a doc-property, e.g. Name : "doccreationdate", Type: Date CustomDisplay {{velocity}} $xwiki.formatDate($doc.getCreationDate(),'yyyy/MM/dd') {{/velocity}} so the custom display does not display the value of the property at all, but the actual creation date - add 'doccreationdate' to the list of columns in the User Directory This kinda works, except that you cannot sort by that fake "creation date", as it is not really there. (The filter searching the database does not know about the custom displayer and searches for the empty value in the DB instead.) 2) Another alternative is to edit the place where "doc.creationDate" is actually rendered ... for this you would have to patch the main livetable rendering. see: http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/LiveTableResultsMacros?viewer=co… around line 230 there is a: #set($discard = $row.put('doc_creationDate', $xwiki.formatDate($itemDoc.creationDate))) you could change that to: #set($discard = $row.put('doc_creationDate', $xwiki.formatDate($itemDoc.creationDate, 'yyyy/MM/dd'))) and then add doc.creationDate to the list of displayed columns in the user directory. However then all creation dates everywhere (well, everywhere in live tables) will be rendered "day only". (Oh, and I see one still needs to add a dummy 'doc.creationDate' field to the user class, as otherwise the field is ignored :( 3) Finally the third solution I can think of would be to add a new date property to the user class, and set this property to doc.creationDate whenever a user is created, and show this property in the User Directory . This might even be the cleanest solution, except that one needs to touch all existing users to update this field. Newly created users then would be set up by writing an event listener that listens to a DocumentCreatingEvent and if the new document has an XWiki.XWikiUsers object, then set the new property to doc.creaionDate Event listener would be "components" as explained here: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingEventListenerTutor… http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/WikiComponent+Module This is somewhat more effort, but I guess this would be "cleaner" (no custom display needed, just use the date format of that property, results can be sorted, as value is really stored in the DB, no patching of "core" XWiki pages ...)