About plugin

This plugin adds possibility of defining relative default dates in Content Objects. It's particularly useful when Content Objects need timestamps visible for Content Editor.

Plugin outcome

In the Content Object form, when adding new object the date field specified will be automatically populated based on the settings (to now; future defined by adding years, months, days, hours and minutes; or past defined by subtracting years, months, days, hours and minutes).

Configuring plugin

To manage a plugin, you must first add it to your plugins. Click the "+" icon to add the plugin to your library and click the "Manage" button. It will open the plugin settings.

Field descriptions:

• Content Type - Defines the type of objects for which the dates will be generated.
• Date field - Determines the field with date.
• Date operation - Specifies what should happen to date when adding a new Content Object.
• Number of years - Number of years that should be added to/subtracted from today's date when creating object.
• Number of months - Number of months that should be added to/subtracted from today's date when creating object.
• Number of days - Number of days that should be added to/subtracted from today's date when creating object.
• Number of hours - Number of hours that should be added to/subtracted from today's date when creating object.
• Number of minutes - Number of minutes that should be added to/subtracted from today's date when creating object.

Development

Quickstart:

1. yarn
2. yarn start
3. work work work
4. update your src/plugin-manifest.json file to contain the production URL and other plugin information
5. yarn build
6. paste js code from ./build/static/js/main.xxxxxxxx.js to Flotiq console
7. navigate to affected Flotiq pages

Deployment

Loading the plugin

URL

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Open Chrome Dev console
3. Execute the following script

   FlotiqPlugins.loadPlugin('plugin-id', '<URL TO COMPILED JS>')

4. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin

Directly

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Open Chrome Dev console
3. Paste the content of static/js/main.xxxxxxxx.js
4. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin

Deployment

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Add a new plugin and paste the URL to the hosted plugin-manifest.json file (you can use https://localhost:3050/plugin-manifest.json as long as you have accepted self-signed certificate for this url)
3. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin