How to dynamically display current year in a footer in episerver

Tanvi

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Hi,

I have a property

public virtual XhtmlString FooterCopyRightText { get; set; }

Through CMS, editor will add the text with year in this. While rendering this property on View, I want to display the current year on it dynamically.

How to do it?

#226712

Aug 19, 2020 6:09

Dipak Salve

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Hi Tanvi,

I believe this proprty is to display like - (c) 2019. You can add a placeholder {0} from the CMS in the field value. Replace that placeholder with current year in Front end.

E.g

So input would text for FooterCopyRightText will like '© {0}'
string.Fromat(FooterCopyRightText.ToHtmlString(), DateTime.Today.Year); => (c) 2019.

Dipak

#226714

Edited, Aug 19, 2020 6:25

Tanvi

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Dipak, can you give an example here properly, I'm not able to get it

#226720

Aug 19, 2020 11:04

Dipak Salve

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When you will set the value from the CMS set it with placeholder i.e. '{0}'
In your case it would be like '@Copyright {0}', so that {0} is get replaced with current year on the front end or at controller.

string.Fromat(FooterCopyRightText.ToHtmlString(), DateTime.Today.Year);

Also think about type of porpety, whether you want XHTMLString or string?

#226734

Edited, Aug 19, 2020 12:54