copyright 2020

[behzad]

Gang, how can we have the year of the copyright notice on the footer automatically change to the year, same goes with the year anywhere on the pages.

[Acorn]

Gang, how can we have the year of the copyright notice on the footer automatically change to the year, same goes with the year anywhere on the pages.

I coded this for someone a time back onTG. Personally, I would now use smart fields as CopyrightDate and change in one place yearly.

Acorn

[behzad]

Oh I like smart stuff Thanks.

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's a JavaScript example. Not sure if it's overkill though.

@ Acorn: How to I assign an ID to a text field within Xara?

[behzad]

Nice job Egg. Thanks to both of you.

[letsgofishing]

Repeating object?

[Acorn]

Here's a JavaScript example. Not sure if it's overkill though.
@ Acorn: How to I assign an ID to a text field within Xara?

Egg, my approach is "simpler".

Create and format a long Text Column with boilerplate text (i.e., any words at all).
Highlight with the Text Tool and add Names of htmlblocktext and an ID (your question) of 'copyright'.

In a Placeholder or Page body add the code:

<script>
  var result = document.getElementById("copyright").innerHTML = "\u00A9 " + Date().substr(11, 4);
</script>

An earlier example is in https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...198#post617198.

The advantage is all the formatting is set up within Xara, with no extra coding.
The disadvantage is it will fail in Supersites (HTML recognised only first ID instance0 so you have to write more code to instead present the value of the variable result...

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

Yes, I really like that method.

Re ID In my dotage I tried ID=copyright, ID = "copyright", "copyright" but never attempted copyright!