ThreadStamp Element (View)

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Renders, in discussion boards, the current server's local time in a specific format (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS) for sorting purposes.

<ThreadStamp
  StripWS = "TRUE" | "FALSE">
</ThreadStamp>

Attributes

Attribute

Description

StripWS

Optional Boolean. TRUE to remove white space from the beginning and end of the value returned by the element.

Child Elements

None

Parent Elements

Numerous

Occurrences

Minimum: 0

Maximum: Unbounded

Remarks

Each discussion board has a special threading field that consists of a concatenation of timestamps. The threading value of a discussion item is the threading value of its parent followed by the ThreadStamp value corresponding to the current local time.

Example

The following example uses CAML to render a hidden <INPUT> element in an HTML form. The value of this element is the first 504 characters of the concatenation of the Threading variable (if present; if not, the value is an empty string), followed by the value rendered by the ThreadStamp element, which represents the current time.

<RenderPattern Name="NewPattern" DisplayName="NewPattern">
  <HTML><![CDATA[<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="]]></HTML>
  <FieldPrefix/>
  <Property Select="Name"/>
  <HTML>" VALUE="</HTML>
  <Limit Len="504" StripWS="TRUE">
    <GetVar Name="Threading" StripWS="TRUE"/>
    <ThreadStamp StripWS="TRUE"/>
  </Limit>
  <HTML><![CDATA[">]]></HTML>
</RenderPattern>