QUESTION: Date-based numbering

Kirby 2 Solved ✅
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I’m having trouble getting the Kirby Panel to generate YYYYYMMDD (Ymd) formatting for new posts according to what (I think) the docs say to do here: http://getkirby.com/docs/panel/blueprints/page-settings

Has anyone personally set up data-based posts and, if so, do you see anything I’m missing here:

CloudApp

2

Better image of both folder structure and blueprints:

CloudApp

3

So, not sure if I got that right: The problem is this test2 folder which should have been created with a leading date format, is that correct?

Is there a specific reason why you are trying to get a date format like YYYYmmdd and not just the default Ymd which already should result in something like 20150302?

4

Also, there is no such date format in PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

As @distantnative said, the default is already an output like 20150302.

5

I hear you all about the date format. I will try to capture the errors I was seeing with Ymd, but basically it was showing “Y91” or “Y93” in the datepicker on the panel and I got confused between the storage format and the output format.

I think the real thing that was tripping me up is that when I made a new test post, it was invisible by default (which is good) but that means it wasn’t getting any kind of folder prefix. When I went into the post sorting/editing page and dragged it from invisible to visible, it got the right prefix. duh

Thanks so much. I will leave this open until I can post the final YAML that worked (for me), but I think I got it from here.

Max

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Datepicker? There are two different things:

  • The date field in a text file which can be formatted in the blueprint which has a default format of YYYY/MM/DD
  • And the date as prepended to the folder name (which has the format Ymd by default and can be formatted according to the php date formatting options)
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So I’d say what you wanna do is this:

Year

pages:
  num: date
  field: pubdate
  sort: flip

Post

pubdate:
  label: Publication Date
  type: date

Or do you actually prefer something like YYYYMMDD instead of the default YYYY/MM/DD for the panel field (“datepicker”)?