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Include date in Confluence

Felix Sargent

Hi!

I'm trying to put in a date into a wiki page. On auto-generated Retrospective pages, there is an excellent date picker. I'd like this on other pages, but I can't figure out how to include it. It's not a macro, and doesn't exist anywhere within the documentation. The only way I've been able to include the same functionality has been to literally copy and paste the date picker to the new page.

See screenshot. Top is what I want. The rest is how hard I'm trying.

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Accepted answers

snorrish

You can press // to initiate the date picker.

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Felix Sargent

Source says it's

<p>&nbsp;<time datetime="2014-04-25" />&nbsp;</p></td></tr>

but I don't how how to include that.

snorrish

You can press // to initiate the date picker.

Felix Sargent

Oh WOW. Where is that documented? I have no idea how I would have found that out. Google Search: Date Picker Confluence and you get nothing.

Feature request - include the date picker under the Macro's list.

AsmitaD

Thank you it works fine.

I agree with @Felix Sargent, found no documentation for it.

Rob Gilliam

If you're creating a minutes from a meeting template then the "actions" section gives a hint, but otherwise I don't think it's documented.

Abhay Patil

BTW, the "//" as date picker has STOPPED WORKING today!!

Abhay Patil

And today it is working alright!

Ólafur Guðmundsson

Does anyone know how to format this // date picker? It doesn't seem to follow the settings under general formatting settings as I would have assumed. As described here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-time-and-date-formats-150144.html

Akhil Gupta_n7jjyf

change the code..never be unsure!

Casey Maynard

Is it possible to be able to have a date picker available to change the date on the page without having to go into Edit Mode?

Realtek IT

Does anyone know how to format this // date picker?

Realtek IT

I find temp solution

Casey Maynard

Where can this temp solution be implemented?

Casey Maynard

Is it possible to enter a specific date using the // format?

I would like to enter // 2008-09-17, but the date picker only seems to allow dates to be entered through the GUI date picker and enter past dates is very cumbersome through this process (can you imagine how many clicks i have to use to enter this date via the date picker without being able to enter it directly?

How can this be a 'feature' if it is not very usable?

How can this be a feature if it has a 'bug' that was just NOW (well 3 weeks ago) entered, and will unlikely be fixed any time soon.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55188

Peter Andersen

Typing

//17/9/2008

works for me.

if it is current year you can do with

//17/9

Casey Maynard

The key word there is 'typing'. Yes that works but I need to 'paste' a date. I have over 3000 dates that need to be entered (from an excel table) and I want them to use the // date formatter, but pasting the //17/9/2008 does not use the // date formatter it just gets pasted as text >>> //17/9/2008

Casey Maynard

Update. I recently discovered that just typing '17-9-2008' (without typing // before this) and then hit enter works. I am not sure if this is a change or if I never tried this. But I still need a way to paste dates (or a script that can covert them into the date formatter.

Also, it does occur to me that the date format that I enter 'dd-mm-yyyy' does not match the format that is eventually displayed. 'dd-Mmm-yyyy'.

It is amazing that such a simple feature is

1. Poorly documented

2. Poorly implemented

ShelleyDee

I use the Page Info for Scriptrunner macro to insert created date, last modified date etc on pages.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/174/page-info-for-scriptrunner-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

It's free but I'm pretty sure you need to purchase Scriptrunner to make it function correctly.

Casey Maynard

Well Scriptrunner is not an affordable option. Luckily most of the functionality we were using it can now be queried directly in the base product of JIRA/Confluence.

Would this script work on being able to query the Release Date for a Fix Version? (without having Scriptrunner installed?)

Bradley Kelly

Thanks for useful answers.

Nandini Vyas

Will the date picker always display current date and refresh automatically everyday?

Ronald Tague

Thanks for sharing

Elena Ovdienko _Stiltsoft_

Hello Community.

@Casey Maynardasked about the ability to change the date without page editing. Handy Date is the solution for this use case. It's one of the macros of Handy Macros for Confluence.

Our app includes many other useful macros in a bundle, like statuses, buttons, reminders, and more. So you could use not only advanced date picker with it.

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