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Insert current date into Confluence page

Liam Nicholls

Hello

Is there any wiki markup to insert the current date onto a Confluence page.

I am wanting to export a PDF from a single page (it is a report for external users not on the onDemand app) and I am wanting the date of the report to be displayed on the PDF.

thanks

Accepted answers

Liam Nicholls

Thanks Bob, I've just tried this on my Confluence page, however I don't think it works. I'm using JIRA onDemand, so tha plugin may not be installed.

This feature has been requested by the way in response to my support query

https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5724

All comments

Bob Swift

The reporting plugin has this capability and some other macros as well including the Run Plugin:

{run-now}
$current_time
{run-now}

Date format can be specified on the macro if needed.

Liam Nicholls

Thanks Bob, I've just tried this on my Confluence page, however I don't think it works. I'm using JIRA onDemand, so tha plugin may not be installed.

This feature has been requested by the way in response to my support query

https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5724

Bob Swift

Yes, you need to be able to install the plugins in order for them to work . OnDemand doesn't allow that currently.

Matt

Liam, could you not achieve this by customizing the PDF Stylesheet with CSS? I don;t know enough about CSS to know if it is possible but thought it might be an option.

Steffen Heller

I also want the current date. But I want it to appear in the footer of my PDF page. Just started thinking about it and got my doubts if this is possible at all. I mean, I would need to create something like this:

@page {
@bottom-center {   
content: {NAME OF MY MACRO}; 
}  
}

Is this possible? Can user macros be used in combination with "content:..."? Or how else could this be achieved?

Mick Davidson_o2ws6w

Steffen,

When you export to PDF, the date and time the PDF was created is part of the name that is automatically generated. Would that be sufficient for your needs? Cheers

Steffen Heller

Interesting point. But no, that is not really sufficient.

Anyways, I think I just found a possible solution. I can achieve what I want indirectly:

I put the user macro on the confluence page, build a div around it and then copy the div to the header.

Karie Kelly1

As an administrator who isn't a developer, I'm not too fluent in building macros. Could you provide more details for me on how you accomplished this as I am needing to have the current date on a page when it is rendered or exported or a date in the page/space PDF export footer.

I would appreciate any help you can offer!

tk385

Fast forward 3 years and we are in 2014. Is there a good way to handle this now?

Steven F Behnke

You should really ask a new question. Please include your use case where you need the time (pdf exports? all pages? what do you really need... Are you also on OnDemand?)

Karie Kelly1

Really?? There are many comments on this that obviously need it. We are not OnDemand and do need it. We need it to indicate an as of date when providing PDF documents to others (whether client or internal).

Steven F Behnke

@Karie Kelly

@tk385

Ask new questions. New questions keep the format clean. It took me a few moments to even find who posted here, because you commented on an old issue.

After a little more searching I found this. Boris Mocialov has the right answer. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/266126/how-do-you-display-current-date-and-time-in-confluence-using-user-macro-and-how-do-you-add-it-like-a-date-and-time-stamp

So let's walk though a basic implimentation for it.

You'll need to navigate to your Confluence installation via your browser
Click the Gear icon and press Confluence Administration
On the left side, press User Macros
Press Create a New User macro
Paste my below code into Template and fill out the following form fields as such:

## Macro title: Current Time
## Macro has a body: N
## Body processing: No macro body
##
## Developed by: Steven Behnke
## Date created: 28/Aug/2014
## Installed by: 

## @noparams


&lt;p&gt;$action.dateFormatter.formatGivenString("dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm:ss", $content.currentDate)&lt;/p&gt;

Once you've done that, you can add {current-time} to any page and it will print the current date and time. If you only want date you'd remove the "hh:mm:ss". If you only wanted to print on Printed PDF's you'd need to add it to the PDF Layout settings.

Steven F Behnke

I don't think you have the ability to mark my answer as correct in a thread you don't own, either. Which is lame.

tk385

We're not on OnDemand either. I can't imagine such a such task cannot be done without going through hoops. My use case is the same - just need to put a "printed on" date on the PDF so it's clear when the document is being generated.

Steven F Behnke

Yes I have an answer below. Please look at it I think it answers your problem.

eyrisone

This worked great for me. Any idea how to get this to work for a specific time zone? I'm working on building a clock for our different offices.

Steven F Behnke

@Carlos Parada it would be easier for me to help you if you ask a new question. It's hard for me to find new comments to old questions/answers. Additionally, if you could tell me a little bit more about what you're trying to accomplish I'd be more than willing to help you.

Steffen Heller

@Karie Kelly

If you managed to create a current date somehow and you just need to know how to get it into the footer of a PDF, here is how you can do that:

On the wiki page:

Put that date inside a CSS class called "runningfooter" (could be any name, but has to be the same as in the PDF export stylesheet)

In the PDF export stylesheet:

Enter the following code

@page {
@bottom-right { 
content: element(runningfooter); 
}
}
.runningfooter { 
position: running(runningfooter); 
}

carolyn french

What would the syntax be for the CSS class that calls the user-created macro to calculate the current date please?

Dana Jansen - Confluence Queen

insert the variable $currentDateLozenge and the system will automatically render the current date when the page is created.

Steffen Heller

Can you specify:

Insert where: Wiki page? Template? User macro? Stylesheet? Header/Footer?
When WHAT page is created: Wiki page? PDF?

Lebende Legenden

Kinda late for that but...

Steffen could you please give an example on how you put the date into a css class.

Got a working macro with the date in dd.MM.yyyy format.

Also added the stylesheet parts to mine but can't get it to work.

Thanks in advance.

Steffen Heller

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Insert-current-date-into-Confluence-page/qaq-p/313517#M96812 was my attempt to answer this very question.

Did you try it didn't work (which could be possible since I didn't have a macro and couldn't try it) or what information do you need?

Dana Jansen - Confluence Queen

@Steffen Heller- These variables can be entered into Confluence Templates and certain Macros that support these kinds of variables (and no I won't list them here because I don't know them all)

When we're talking about pages - we're talking about confluence pages.

Chris Jones_evvufm

Hi,

Noob question: I noticed that when I attempted this the results that I got look like this on the page. How do I lose the code that is surrounding the date?

Demo Date: <p>07-Nov-2018 </p>

Shri_2hpesb

Insert ‘Contributors’ Macro

This helped me with what I needed, a place to see who edited the page and when.

Deirdre Curle_jxh3ce

Hi @Dana Jansen - Confluence Queen , thank you for your response. I have tried your suggestion in a Confluence template. When I create a page based on the template, it creates the variable, but it is blank - it doesn't populate with the current date. When I fill in the date it holds the value in the variable. I really want it to default to the current date. The user shouldn't have to do anything. Any suggestions?

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