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!

[TheeeDragon]

I have started a new solution to this ....
as I have about 50 sites I maintain


The general rule is that the year to include in a copyright notice is the year of first publication of the work.
The first publication is when the work is made available to the public without restriction

technically - you do not even need a copyright as it is OBVIOUS you are the author and your site
is by default - published

I do it just for 'fun'
COPYRIGHT. RAVENSWOOD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2013.

[Acorn]

I have started a new solution to this ....
as I have about 50 sites I maintain


The general rule is that the year to include in a copyright notice is the year of first publication of the work.
The first publication is when the work is made available to the public without restriction

technically - you do not even need a copyright as it is OBVIOUS you are the author and your site
is by default - published

I do it just for 'fun'
COPYRIGHT. RAVENSWOOD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2013.

yes, you are right that the Berne Convention does not require a Copyright Notice; it does help if you have one and you go to court.
If you are worried about expiry then you should include the initial date and subsequent revision dates to prevent early expiry.

Acorn