Insert date field

[HotFrog]

I am absolutely brand new to the Xara Web Designer product. I have previously used a very old (MX) version of Dreamweaver.

Today I have spent a couple of hours trying to find a way of inserting a date field into a web page. Preferably I would like one that shows current and updated date and another that inserts the current date that is not updated.

I have searched the Xara Web Designer Help and it does not even find the word "date", searched widget libraries, Googled every which way and searched this forum. I have turned up nothing at all. I cannot see why it should be so difficult to find the solution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics

I bet Acorn when he checks in will have a script you can add via a placeholder. A placeholder is simply a rectangle or any shape to which you can insert code or script to your site. See Help > Index > Placeholder Objects.

You can try this page http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_dates.asp I tried the first script, added to the Body section and it works.

[HotFrog]

Many thanks wpriester.

Much appreciated, I will give it a try.

[HotFrog]

I followed gwpriester's kind advice and got it working fairly easily. However, it gave a very long string including the date and time down to the second and stating the time zone as well. I could probably fiddle about to reduce the string to just the date. However I have no clue about how to format (text, fill colours etc.) Any further help would be very much appreciated. Many thanks.

BTW, on a different subject, I was bit bemused to find no Tables feature in the Xara product but I found a very helpful article stating that a faux table may be constructed using multiple rectangles. It took me several hours to construct a working 7 row by 3 col table but I am happy with the outcome.

[Acorn]

Start from this Thread's Post #8: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...814#post558814.

Acorn

[Acorn]

I was bit bemused to find no Tables feature in the Xara product but I found a very helpful article stating that a faux table may be constructed using multiple rectangles.

Xara, also provides a Table Widget, populated with CSV values. You can useMS Excel and copy into a Xara page. You can link to Google's Sheet and embed that. Dig back in TG a bit and you might find my faux table template that emulates MS Word using stretch boxes.

Acorn

[HotFrog]

Thank you Acorn for both replies.

I got as far as importing an Excel metafile format but found that although the text was editable most other features needed a fresh import. You have made several more very useful suggestions which I will investigate.

Is there a specific reason why the very useful tables feature is not included in Xara web developer? I have found that tables are a fast way of getting a nice tidy layout for data and multiple links to other webpages. I run a sport results feature on the web. This involves linking in as many as 30 results pages for different age group and gender. I unusually use say a 2 col 15 row table and put a page link into each cell with a label. As far as I can see this is a tedious process in Xara.

Thanks again for all help.

[Egg Bramhill]

As Acorn states spreadsheets (much better than tables) can easily be embedded from GoogleDrive or similar. The other great advantage is that you only need to edit/amend the Google Sheet & don't need to touch or republish the Xara file.

EXAMPLE