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dylanmccurry
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February 5, 2023

Default value for Date field?

  • February 5, 2023
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I have a Date field I've added to all pages in my site, called 'pageDate'.

 

<pageDate jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/datepicker" displayedFormat="MMMM DD, YYYY" displayTimezoneMessage="{Boolean}true" fieldDescription="Page Date used for Sorting" fieldLabel="Page Date used for sorting purposes in search scenarios" name="./pageDate" renderReadOnly="{Boolean}false" required="{Boolean}true" type="date" />

 

How can I make this field default to the current date upon page creation?

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Anmol_Bhardwaj
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Anmol_BhardwajCommunity Advisor
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February 6, 2023

To add a default value to a field, you can use "defaultValue"

<pageDate jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/datepicker" displayedFormat="MMMM DD, YYYY" displayTimezoneMessage="{Boolean}true" fieldDescription="Page Date used for Sorting" fieldLabel="Page Date used for sorting purposes in search scenarios" name="./pageDate" renderReadOnly="{Boolean}false" required="{Boolean}true" type="date" defaultValue="{Date}{now}" />
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    dylanmccurryAuthor
    Level 4
    February 6, 2023

    This leads to a build error:

     

    [ERROR] ValidationViolation: "jackrabbit-nodetypes: Property {}defaultValue does not have a valid value: not a valid date format: {now}"

      Anmol_Bhardwaj
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      Anmol_BhardwajCommunity Advisor
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      February 7, 2023

      {Date} is the data type and then in place of {now}, you would need to set time dynamically from the back-end.

      Something like this,

      Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")); child.setProperty(cpropertyName,calendar);

       

      You can refer this question for detailed explanations:
      experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/setting-jcr-property-of-type-date-with-value-dynamically/m-p/323282 

        Manu_Mathew_
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        Manu_Mathew_Community Advisor
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        February 6, 2023

        @dylanmccurry You can use the _cq_template/.content.xml node for this, with the following contents:

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <jcr:root xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0"
                  xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0"
                  xmlns:nt="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0"
                  jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                  pageDate="{Date}2023-02-06T00:00:00.000+05:30">
        </jcr:root>

        Hope this helps!

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          dylanmccurryAuthor
          Level 4
          February 6, 2023

          Yes, but what about tomorrow?  How do I make the system automatically select the current date?

            Manu_Mathew_
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            Manu_Mathew_Community Advisor
            Community Advisor
            February 7, 2023

            @dylanmccurry Probably for the dynamic value you might need to inject it via dialog clientlib js, if {now} is not working or via sling model.

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