Automatic update of copyright date

ben · September 11, 2019, 6:13am

With this example, I want to show a copyright notice with the year automatically adjusted. Although this is a follow on from the Push Footer to bottom of viewport tutorial, you can apply this technique to any equivalent scenario.

We start with a page that contains the normal ingredients:

Next, place the Date and Time widget into our document by right-clicking App and choosing Data and Date and Time

Choose the widget and give it an ID and change the Interval to Days

Click the footer to select, double-click to edit, position the cursor after 2019 and click the lightning symbol.

Choose datatime and select the formatting button.

Right-click varDate.datetime, Date and Time and Format Date

Format for the year

NOTE: If you only want the year, i.e. not a data range, then you can remove the original 2019 and the year will automatically update. If you do want the date range, then continue.

We need to compare the current year with the initial year so that we do not double up, e.g. 2019 - 2019. Right-click Format Date and choose Operation

Select the equals operator and 2019 as the value

Right-click equals operator and choose Operation

Choose the ternary operator (?) and give the true part a space (spacebar)

Because the ternary operator is at a wrong level, we need to drag it under the ternary operator until we see a tick, upon which let go and it will find itself on the correct level.

The result is

Click the ternary operator and select Operation

Choose the else part ( of the operator

For the value, we use the lightning bolt

and select datetime:

When the equation is false, we need to have the current year showing after a dash (’ - '). This is done as per following.

As before, the operation is at a wrong level. We need to drag it to the ternary operator similar to what was done in step 12. The result will look like