nVelocity for current YEAR?

[NC Software]

In my footer I'd like to have the Copyright YEAR value automatically set so I never have to touch it again. Can this be done using nVelocity?

[Logan Rhodehamel]

This would be roundabout, but $User.LastActivityDate.Year would probably do it. The LastActivityDate is always set for the user with the date the request was initiated. So long as your server time is correct, that will show the current year.

[mihkeltt]

A bit more elegant solution would be to add

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DateTime.Now()

into the Page.Items dictionary which you have access from the template as

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$page.Items.get_Item("currentDate").Year

. Bear in mind that the date should be inserted into the items collection very early on in the page lifecycle. One point for this would be in global.asax in the

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Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute

event. The current page can be accessed there via

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HttpContext.Current.Handler as Page

.

Mihkel

[kastnerd]

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