Add date of last update to page

Report · May 13, 2009

Is there a way to embed the file modification date of an html file into the content of the file itself - perhaps with a user variable or something? I want to have a "last updated" field at the bottom of each html page and ideally i'd like to "bake" this information into each file during compilation. I could probably do something similar with Javascript but that would be run when the user downloads the files and would also require requests between the server and client PC which is not really what i want.

I'm using RH 8 for Html and generating Webhelp pro output.

Thanks

Report · May 13, 2009

Hi there

Insert > Fields and Variables > Date?

Cheers... Rick

Report · May 13, 2009

Hello again

In thinking further on this it occurs to me that what I proposed won't really work. What it will do is insert the current date into the topic.

I did a brief Google and found the following page that may help you accomplish this.

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Cheers... Rick

Report · May 14, 2009

Ya - I've been looking into this as well and there are 2 things that will prevent this from working:

1) When RH generates the final output (in the !SSL! folder), the last modification date of those output files becomes whatever the date/time is at the time they were generated.

2) Even if i could get # 1 to work, I then do a robocopy operation to copy this output to sharepoint (where we host the help files) which sets the last modified date of those files on sharepoint to be the date/time of the copy on sharepoint (this seems to be different behaviour then when robocopy copies files to a local disk).

In anycase - what i really need is a way to "bake" this information before the files are compiled... unfortunately it looks like i'll have to manually do this with the Insert->Fields and Variables->Date method....