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Bent Holz 100 posts 273 karma points

Feb 07, 2018 @ 10:35
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Problem with showing date from date picker

Templates, (partial) views and macros

Umbraco 7
I'm trying to create a very simple list of articles. On my doctype I have a property called "articleDate" with a Date editor set to mandatory.

My partial view looks like this:
```
@{ var selection = Model.Content.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible()).ToArray(); }    
@if (selection.Length > 0)
    {
        <ul>
            @foreach (var item in selection)
            {
                <li>
                    <a href="@item.Url">@Umbraco.Field("articleDate", formatAsDate: true) - @item.Name</a>
                </li>
            }
        </ul>
    }
```
But for some reason when outputting the list it replaces "articleDate" with the current date?!?... Am I doing something wrong and if yes.... what?
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Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12133 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Feb 08, 2018 @ 10:18
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Hi Bent,

You can also do this
```
@item.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate").ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")
```
Of course you need to change the format in the ToString to your desired format

Dave
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Steve Morgan 1346 posts 4453 karma points c-trib

Feb 08, 2018 @ 10:21

Hi Bent,

You're using @Umbraco.Field which will attempt to get the data from the current page node not the children so you want to use the item!

You want something like:

@item.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate")

And you can control the format (I think you're in the US?) via something

like:

@(item<DateTime>("articleDate").ToString("MMM yyyy ddd d HH:mm"))

Once your razor to format starts looking this complicated it's probably worth breaking it out a bit. So something like:

    @{ var selection = Model.Content.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible()).ToArray(); }    
@if (selection.Length > 0)
    {
        <ul>
            @foreach (var item in selection)
            {
                var formatedArticleDate = item.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("articleDate").ToString("MMM yyyy ddd d HH:mm");
                <li>
                    <a href="@item.Url">@formatedArticleDate - @item.Name</a>
                </li>
            }
        </ul>
    }

HTH

Steve

EDIT: Dave is much faster at typing than me

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Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12133 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Feb 08, 2018 @ 10:22

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EDIT: Dave is much faster at typing than me

Probably because my answer is way shorter and not explaining why his approach didn't work :-)

Dave

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Bent Holz 100 posts 273 karma points

Feb 08, 2018 @ 10:49

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Of course... And very nice answer :)

Cheers!

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