hi.

string.Format("{0:00':'00}", value);

will output in the correct format.

but if you are manipulating date functions, you are probably better putting everything into a DateTime value - and using the time manipulation functions (e.g date.AddHours(-1) ) as that will copy with all the strange things (like taking an hour from 24 mins past midnight on the first of a month.).

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for your response. Might be a stupid question but how do i work this into my code?

I've made it so that i can now call a var like this:

var promotietijdwebinar = (item.GetValue("starttijdwebinar")-100);

Can i format this with string.format?

Hi Kevin,

I'm sorry but its not working for me. Maybe that's because value starttijdwebinar isn't a DateTime?

Here's the entire code:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@{
    var startNodeId = 1819;
    var startNode = Umbraco.Content(startNodeId);
    var currentdate = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");
    var currenttime = DateTime.Now.ToString("HHmm");
    var selection = startNode.Webinarcontentgrid;
    int i = 1;

foreach (var item in selection){
    if(item.contentgriddate >= currentdate && item.eindtijdwebinar > currenttime ){
        if(@i <= 1){
            var promotietijdwebinar = (item.GetValue("starttijdwebinar")-100);

            if(item.starttijdwebinar > currenttime && @promotietijdwebinar > currenttime){
                <div class="wrapper">
                    <img src="https://webinar.leadkeeper.net/media/129038/background.jpg" alt="background img Microsoft Sessies" />
                        <div class="streammessage">
                            <img src="https://webinar.leadkeeper.net/media/129040/icon_wachten.png" alt="not started" />
                            <h1>De uitzending op deze pagina is nog niet begonnen.</h1>
                            <p>Inloggen is mogelijk op <strong>@item.contentgriddate</strong> vanaf <strong>@promotietijdwebinar</strong>.<br />
                            De uitzending start om <strong>@item.starttijdwebinar</strong>.</p>
                        </div>
                </div>
            }
        } i++;
    }
}           

}

Values eindtijdwebinar and starttijdwebinar are plain text values.

Hi,

you have an @ in the if line .

        if(item.starttijdwebinar > currenttime && @promotietijdwebinar > currenttime){

so remove that.

        if(item.starttijdwebinar > currenttime && promotietijdwebinar > currenttime){

also, if you only care about how it's displayed you only need to put the formmating on the promotietijdwebinar value in the paragraph ?

<h1>De uitzending op deze pagina is nog niet begonnen.</h1>
<p>Inloggen is mogelijk op <strong>@item.contentgriddate</strong> vanaf <strong>@promotietijdwebinar</strong>.<br />
De uitzending start om <strong>@item.starttijdwebinar</strong>.</p>

so

<strong>@(string.format("{0:00':'00}", promotietijdwebinar)</strong>

should be enough ?

this formatting only works when the value is an int.

so either check the values are int,s or see if you can get them by type (for example with item.GetValue<int>("thing"))

or you could parse them int.Parse(value) if they are strings.

but i would have checking around a lot of this, because things like parse could fail..

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