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Sitecore 5.3 - Default Field value to Today's Date   Message List  
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Hey All,

I am new to Sitecore and I am curious on how to set the default value
of a field to Today's Date.

Thanks in advance,
Wayne




Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:03 pm

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Hey All, I am new to Sitecore and I am curious on how to set the default value of a field to Today's Date. Thanks in advance, Wayne...
dice55m
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Jan 16, 2008
12:47 am

Hello, This forum has basically been abandoned in favor of the SDN forums: http://sdn5.sitecore.net/Forum.aspx This specific question is probably best...
John West
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Jan 16, 2008
1:45 am

Oops. if ( itm.Database.Name.ToLower() == "master" && itm.Fields["myfield"] != null ) That should include checking that the field doesn't already have a value:...
John West
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Jan 16, 2008
1:55 am

One more thing I forgot. Sitecore automatically stores the version's creation date in a field named __created (Sitecore.FieldIDs.Created). This may or may not...
John West
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Jan 16, 2008
4:01 pm

OK, now I'm even annoying myself. I think you could use item:created instead of item:saved, which should not raise item:created, which should mean you don't...
John West
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Jan 16, 2008
4:13 pm

... Appreciate the quick response John. I created the item:created event handler and it works almost perfectly. When I create an item, it successfully...
dice55m
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Jan 16, 2008
9:11 pm

That is very weird - I have never seen that before. It could be something else you're working on, or you might try item:saved instead....
John West
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Jan 16, 2008
9:15 pm

Does it open the same item in all content editors, or different items (maybe this is a result of default children in your master?). You may want to use...
John West
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Jan 16, 2008
11:02 pm

Hey John, The item is in all of the newly opened Content Editors, with no data tree (the site tree), just the lone item. This is just weird, I do have a...
dice55m
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Jan 19, 2008
12:33 am

Sorry for the delayed response. Can you explain what you mean by an OnSave event handler? Do you mean an item:saving or item:saved event handler, a processor...
John West
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Jan 21, 2008
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