19 Nov
2014
19 Nov
'14
6:20 p.m.
I'm in the process of transferring a reasonable number of "Tip of the Day"
articles that we've previously distributed by email to store on the Wiki. Ideally,
I'd like to display them in a Documents list using the Dashboard macro and Documents
gadget and have the date that they were first published as one of the columns in the
document list. Note that the publication date should reflect the date that the tip was
first sent out as an email, not the date that I'm now transferring the text to the
Wiki, which is today (ie. November, 2014). Some of these articles go back as far as
September, 2011. I think I'd also like to avoid messing with the revision history
dates on these articles. I think the publication date should be a field independent of the
needs of the Wiki and it's revision tracking mechanisms, even if there is a supported
way of fiddling with such things.
I've been able to associate a CreationDate property with each article via the
following process:
1. Create a Hidden "Tip of the Day" page.
2. Edit the class of the "Tip of the Day" page and add a Date property called
CreationDate.
3. On each Tip of the Day article, edit the objects, add a "Tip of the Day"
object and store the creation date in the CreationDate property on that object.
What I can't seem to figure out is if I can display this as a column in the Documents
gadget of a dashboard and if so how. The Documents gadget does have a columns property
which takes a comma-separated list of column specifications such as doc.name, doc.date,
doc.author and the like. Is there are way to specify the CreationDate on the attached Tip
of the Day object as a column in this list?
Alternatively, is there a better way to go about this?
Brett Gersekowski
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