Today's date field?

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June 9, 2019 at 8:34 am #491789

Nigel Hancock
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I need to add a field which is “date modified” which is then the default sort order. I don’t think this is a native options so, I’ve added a field “Date modified” and I would like to auto-populate it with today’s date, not sure that’s even possible and, if not, I’ll have to use manual entry BUT if I do that, I want to limit the options to select only today’s date. I’ve been playing with the “Date Range” which I presume conforms to PHP syntax but can’t make it stick – that is, I enter, say, d+1:d-1 in the date range field, save it, but then it gets stripped out so I presume I’m suing the wrong syntax.

Can anyone advise what the correct syntax should be for today’s date only please?

Many thanks,

June 9, 2019 at 8:25 pm #491824

Kor
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Hi Nigel Hancock,

Thanks for your post. You can sort by the creation date of the listings following the instructions here https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/places/sorting/ .But, there isn’t an option that allows you to sort with “date modified”.

June 10, 2019 at 5:54 am #491888

Nigel Hancock
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That’s what I guessed Kor but the real question was about the syntax for the date range option in a date field in order to restrict input to today’s date only. I can’t find any documentation on that?

June 10, 2019 at 8:55 am #491948

Alex Rollin
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I will flag your topic for the developers who will comment if there is a workaround.

June 10, 2019 at 9:05 am #491957

Nigel Hancock
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Alex,

It’s not so much a workaround I need (although it would be good) right now I need to know the syntax for the date range option in a date field. The tooltip makes suggestions but I can’t get these to work in any way or even remain saved?

June 10, 2019 at 9:27 am #491975

Kiran
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Hi Nigel,

Without customization, it is not possible to achieve things you asking. It requires some customization to to display field in form and to validate during sorting.

Thanks,
Kiran

June 10, 2019 at 9:45 am #491986

Nigel Hancock
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Arggghh! Please, maybe I’m not making sense …

There is a Date field I’ve added to a CPT.

In that date field is a field marked “Date range” (see attached screenshot).

I need to know the syntax/format for adding something in this field, maybe a date range, that’s all.

June 10, 2019 at 10:44 am #491995

Kiran
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June 10, 2019 at 11:21 am #492008

Nigel Hancock
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Ah! I’m sorry too 🙂

ok so I’ll link to a video of what I now think is a bug …

https://grassmediaweb.com/downloads/dateRangeproblem.mov
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