Seeing some strange behaviour when importing a node that includes a date picker to one of our environments
We have a Date Picker where the Date Format is set to DD-MM-YYYY (don't ask!).
When importing that node to one of our environments using Exporter it seems to reverse the format to MM-DD-YYYY and therefore we end up with invalid dates.
I only noticed this because I reimported the same package again and the 2022 node was still showing differences after uploading the package.
No obvious differences between environments and database collation is the same in each environment.
Any thoughts on whether this could be a uSync issue?
I will take a look - we do format the dates in the export into a "standard" format - mainly to ensure its a date we can parse at both ends.
I think the date is then parsed and loaded as a Date object on import (so the format in the usync files shouldn't affect what happens in Umbraco) but i am not 100% sure so it will have a play around and see what i can see.
Hi Kevin
Still experiencing this issue after recreating node from scratch in dev environment and trying import to our preprod environment again. It swaps date format around.
Source code is same between environments. I can't think of anything that might affect date formats - sql server collation is same in the different databases. Globalization setting in web.config is the same.
we just haven't released it yet 😞 - but that is what i am working on today. so we should have a new v8 release out and it fixes this (i have tested it based on your format above and it seems to work).
I notied your using a nightly so if you do want to check while we do our final package version testing this is the version that going to become the release.
If you can confirm that works it would be great - but no worries if now - we are likely going to release this as the final release later today/tomorrow once we've double checked everything.
(there are only a few small changes, but we just want to run through them all - we hardly ever release v8 anymore - so just want to make sure)
uSync Exporter - potential issue with Date Picker
Hi Kevin
Umbraco: 8.18.4 uSync: 8.11.12-build.20230125.2
Seeing some strange behaviour when importing a node that includes a date picker to one of our environments
We have a Date Picker where the Date Format is set to DD-MM-YYYY (don't ask!).
When importing that node to one of our environments using Exporter it seems to reverse the format to MM-DD-YYYY and therefore we end up with invalid dates.
I only noticed this because I reimported the same package again and the 2022 node was still showing differences after uploading the package.
No obvious differences between environments and database collation is the same in each environment.
Any thoughts on whether this could be a uSync issue?
If you need any more info please let me know.
Kind regards
Jules
Hi,
I will take a look - we do format the dates in the export into a "standard" format - mainly to ensure its a date we can parse at both ends.
I think the date is then parsed and loaded as a Date object on import (so the format in the usync files shouldn't affect what happens in Umbraco) but i am not 100% sure so it will have a play around and see what i can see.
Kevin
Thanks Kevin
Hi Kevin Still experiencing this issue after recreating node from scratch in dev environment and trying import to our preprod environment again. It swaps date format around.
Source code is same between environments. I can't think of anything that might affect date formats - sql server collation is same in the different databases. Globalization setting in web.config is the same.
I'm totally stumped!
Hi,
yes it turns out we do have a fix for this, ( https://github.com/KevinJump/uSync/commit/37a6e03145c2b3457bfc33a88ec844955aaeaf46 )
we just haven't released it yet 😞 - but that is what i am working on today. so we should have a new v8 release out and it fixes this (i have tested it based on your format above and it seems to work).
Hi,
I notied your using a nightly so if you do want to check while we do our final package version testing this is the version that going to become the release.
https://dev.azure.com/jumoo/Public/_artifacts/feed/nightly/NuGet/uSync.ContentEdition/overview/8.11.4-build.20230320.3
or from the package console:
If you can confirm that works it would be great - but no worries if now - we are likely going to release this as the final release later today/tomorrow once we've double checked everything.
(there are only a few small changes, but we just want to run through them all - we hardly ever release v8 anymore - so just want to make sure)
Hi Kevin
Unfortunately, we won't get the opportunity today to deploy to the problem environment to test.
It's locked down at the moment pending a release.
Sorry about that
Jules
No worries
I was able to replicate and then fix your issue by upgrading locally. so fingers crossed the full release will solve your problem when its out.
Kevin.
Hi Jules,
v8.11.4 release is out now with the data format fix in.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/uSync/8.11.4
if you are using content edition its better to update that (and it will update uSync too.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/uSync.ContentEdition/8.11.4
Release Info : https://github.com/KevinJump/uSync/releases/tag/v8.11.4
This issue fixed in
https://our.umbraco.com/packages/developer-tools/usync/usynccomplete/112989-usync-exporter-date-issues-persist
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