Darryl,

Looks like you've forgot to enter the xslt context, either use

<xsl:if test="umbraco.library:DateGreaterThanOrEqualToday(./data [@alias = 'meetingDate'])">

if you're inside a loop or

<xsl:if test="umbraco.library:DateGreaterThanOrEqualToday($currentPage/data [@alias = 'meetingDate'])">

if you're getting the property from the current page being requested

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

Still coming up with the same error..

Just to expand, it is sat inside a loop:

<xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(1436, 'true')/node">
    <xsl:variable name="agendaFile" select="data [@alias = 'meetingAgenda']" />
    <xsl:variable name="minutesFile" select="data [@alias = 'meetingMinutes']" />
    <xsl:variable name="author" select="umbraco.library:GetMember(data [@alias = 'meetingAddedBy'])" />

    <xsl:if test="umbraco.library:DateGreaterThanOrEqualToday(./data [@alias = 'meetingDate'])">
        <span class="dataRow">
            <div class="reportDate">
                <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data [@alias = 'meetingDate'],'dd/MM/yyyy')"/>
            </div>
            <div class="reportTitle">
                <div class="eventTitle"><xsl:value-of select="data [@alias = 'meetingTitle']"/></div>
            </div>
            <div class="reportSubTitle">
                <xsl:value-of select="data [@alias = 'meetingLocation']"/>
                <br />
                <xsl:value-of select="$author/data [@alias = 'first_name']" />&nbsp;<xsl:value-of select="$author/data [@alias = 'last_name']" /> - <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($author/data [@alias = 'arena_member'])/@nodeName" />
            </div>
            <br style="clear:both;" />
        </span>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

thanks

This is a weird one, it is outputting the meeting title, location etc but not the date, we have commented out the if test and we get no meeting date returned, any ideas why this could be?

Thanks,

Maybe a bug found here.

'meetingDate' used to be called 'meetingDateTime', it was changed to reflect that we don't use the time portion in output or selection. It appears that the new name for the property did not update when the name was changed. I have gone in and manually updated each date and the dates now appear.

As always, thanks for your help Dirk.

I'll mark yours as the answer, especially as I cannot answer my own answer ;)

I'm getting the same thing.  We haven't changed any property names, and it was working previously.  We are using umbraco v 4.0.3 (Assembly version: 1.0.3625.27276).

The line where we get the error is:

<xsl:variable name="upcomingEvents" select="$currentPage/..//node[@nodeTypeAlias='eventItem'][umbraco.library:DateGreaterThanOrEqualToday(data[@alias='Date'])]"/>

The exact error is:

Error occured

System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles)
at umbraco.library.DateGreaterThanOrEqualToday(String firstDate)

I've search the forums, and tried adding a FormatDateTime function, but I'm not having any success at getting over this hurdle.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thank you!

--Kent

Hi Kent,

The error message is a pretty good indication of the presence of one or more 'Date' properties with bad data - try the following lines and see what you get:

<!-- Grab the eventItem nodes for easier access afterwards: -->
<xsl:variable name="eventItems" select="$currentPage/..//node[@nodeTypeAlias = 'eventItem']" />

<!-- Count them all: -->
<p><xsl:value-of select="count($eventItems)" /></p>

<!-- Count the number of eventItems with a Date property: -->
<p><xsl:value-of select="count($eventItems[data[@alias = 'Date']])" /></p>

<!-- Count the number of eventItems with a non-empty Date property: -->
<p><xsl:value-of select="count($eventItems[normalize-space(data[@alias = 'Date'])])" /></p>

/Chriztian

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