this macro displays the create time of a story. while this might sound not too interesting in general, there is an exciting twist that can enhance your weblog to obtain scheduling capabilities.

if you add the parameter as="editor" to this macro and put the whole thing into the "form for creating/editing a story" skin, a new input field will appear whenever you create or edit a story:

<% story.createtime as="editor" %>

by default, the new field contains the current date (ie. the date and time when you activated the link to the form). but you can modify the contents to give your story a date lying in the very past or future.

For all the other options you can use within this macro see date and time (and how to format them)

If you add the option as="link" the formatted create time of the story will appear as link to the appropriate day-listing, but only if you published the story in the weblog. If your story was published just in a topic it won't appear as link, just as plain text (the same will happen if the story is offline, of course).

<% story.createtime as="link" %>

just what I needed to integrate some very old stories.
I like it! thxs!

(only thing I still miss is the option to delete weblogs - yes I know: this is coming soon ;-))

you get nasty errors, inserting dates in wrong format. this comes up to the point, that the whole calendar does not work properly. Can you implement a warning, when the date-format has been entered incorrect?

hns wrote: "except maybe by providing a date editor based on drop down lists. " That's the way!

this macro doesn´t work with mozilla, right? the input field does not appear.