Formaing Date Fields on Web page

[spragueg]

I have a page that returns a list of records containing dates, like this...

[FMP-Record]

[FMP-Field :Date Field], [FMP-Field :Date Field].... and so on...

[/FMP-Record]

The HTML output looks like "10/20/2000"

I want it to look like "10/20"

Is there a way to specify date formating with CDML?

Thanks,

G

[This message has been edited by spragueg (edited October 20, 2000).]

[dspires]

Try formating the date as you want it to display in the FMP layout and then use [FMP-Field ate Field, format] in the CDML.

[spragueg]

How does CDML know which layout to use? I have layouts that use long dates and others which display it short. Do I have to specify which layout somehow? I looked at the -Lay and [FMP-LayoutFields] tag but neither seem to have anything to do with format acording to the CDML Reference DB.

G

[dspires]

In the HTML/CDML source that you use to query and load the result page, you will specify the database (-db) and layout (-lay) to use. I only have the CDML/web reference for 4.1, so don't have the reference for the new 5.0 "Format" parameter (I read it in a post somewhere), but I am assuming that it is used like the "Raw" or "URL" parameter, which is documented under the "Field" section.

[spragueg]

I got it.

I used the -Lay=Layout Name in the request

and [FMP-Field:Field Name, format]

FMPused the formats from that Layout. I worked great. Thanks for your help

[Simonpennington]

One thing you should make sure abour if you are using layout names in your online databases is to make sure all layouts have no spaces in their names. I have found this makes them unusable in INLINEACTION tags [fmp-inlineaction]

Simon

[dspires]

I've also found it a good practice not to use spaces in field names for databases that will be set up for the web. I use underscores instead. It doesn't matter for FMP but some javascript tricks won't work if the field names have spaces.

[Vaughan]

Simon (or anyone)

Can you discuss the inline action cdml tags. I just upgraded to FMP5 and am sorely missing the CDML reference. I know all the FMP4 tags but none of the FMP5 ones!

Thanks.