00759: Daily Message
Description: I need to be able to implement a daily message based on the date - something that would let me put in messages to my team like these on a particular date.
- Only 5 days until sales close
- Bob's birthday
- CEO visit today
I tried using the javascript markup to include a script that would do this, but couldn't get it working - any ideas?
The Random quote and rotate markup functions are no good as they change with every load.
Did you take a look at the date option of conditional markup? For example, one can do:
(:if date 20060620:)(:include SomePage:)(:if:)
which will display SomePage only on June 20, 2006. There are also options available to say things like "after date", "before date", and "between date1 and date2".
--Pm
It's close, but not quite - to use conditional markup I'd need to have if statements for every day - that's 365 lines in the file, which is quite a load. Was wondering if there's a more elegant way to achieve this.
Essentially what I want is something like
(:include PageCalledDate:)
Well, maybe someone else has a similar problem...
Both methods assume that the pages to be included are named in the form yyyy-mm-dd
Since the introduction of Markup Expressions, this would do the trick: (:include {(ftime fmt="%F")}:)
Another method would be $FmtPV['$Today'] = 'date("Y-m-d")'; in a config file and (:include {$Today}:) in the wiki page where you want it included.
Anke January 15, 2008, at 09:46 AM
See also Cookbook:Reminder for a slightly different approach. --Petko