Templates: Release date

[TylerInHiFi]

I'm working on modifying the FancyIndex template to suit my own needs with DVDpedia and I can't figure out how to display just the release year in the overview and the full release date in the details or if it's even possible to do so.

[marumari]

Are you thinking of Release versus Theatrical? Or are you wanting the just the year of Release in one area and year+month in another area?

If the latter is what you want, I don't think it lets you override the output format for a key.

[TylerInHiFi]

What I wanted was, for a movie released Jan 25, 1961, to have just 1961 in the list view and then 25 Jan 1961 shown in the detailed view. I wondered if it was something that just wasn't possible.

[marumari]

I don't think it is, unfortunately. All you can do is [key:whatever] - you can't set options about how the key is formatted. That said, you could probably accomplish it with some quick Javascript.

[Conor]

You could take advantage of the new <meta name="date-format" content="YYYY-MM-dd"> tag that Marumari is using in her template to achieve release date sorting.

If your not using any other dates in the listing you can force all date in the listing template with:

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<meta name="date-format" content="YYYY">

For the details template use:

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<meta name="date-format" content="YYYY-MM-dd">

I don't know how that will affect Marumari sorting, but I am sure that it should be able to sort just years as well as it was handling the full date.

Download DVDpedia beta that includes all these new features that Marumari requested for Gamepedia.

If you do go with using the difference between [key:theatrical] and [key:releaseDate] as suggested above, then you have to remove the date-format meta tag from the templates and set your date formatting preference in DVDpedia (the meta tag setting overwrites your DVDpedia preference to display [key:theatrical] just as a year).