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Check dates match.

I have a "start date" and "end date" field in my collection. Both include the time. If the event starts and ends on the same date, but at a different time, I only want to show the "time" part of end_date (otherwise I want to show the full date.

Here's what I have

    <perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Start Date" format="%d %B %Y, %l:%M%p" time="true" required="true" />
    - 
    <perch:if match="eq" id="start_date" value="{end_date}" format="%d %B %Y">
        <perch:content id="end_date" type="date" label="End Date" format="%l:%M%p" time="true"  />
    <perch:else />
        <perch:content id="end_date" type="date" label="End Date" format="%d %B %Y, %l:%M%p" time="true"  />    
    </perch:if>

It doesn't seem to work as I'd like it to. Can you spot anything wrong in the conditionals?

Thanks for all your help - Perch support is amazing!
Paul Bell

Paul Bell 0 points

  • 6 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

You need to apply the formatting to both sides of the comparison:

<perch:if match="eq" id="start_date" value="{end_date}" format="%d %B %Y" format-both="true">
Paul Bell

Paul Bell 0 points

6 years ago

Thanks, Drew. That makes sense and is very neat. Unfortunately it's not working for me. Here's my modified template. It's included into all my other collection templates, but that shouldn't make a difference?

<p class="date">
    <perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Start Date" format="%d %B %Y, %l:%M%p" time="true" required="true" />
    - 
    <perch:if match="eq" id="start_date" value="{end_date}" format="%d %B %Y" format-both="true">
        <perch:content id="end_date" type="date" label="End Date" format="%l:%M%p" time="true"  />
    <perch:else />
        <perch:content id="end_date" type="date" label="End Date" format="%d %B %Y, %l:%M%p" time="true"  />    
    </perch:if>
</p>
Paul Bell

Paul Bell 0 points

6 years ago

It's always showing the full date (so, it's not picking up a match).
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

If you output both formatted, do you see a match?
Paul Bell

Paul Bell 0 points

6 years ago

Thanks, Drew - I've spotted the issue now - in my master template, the start date field only had the id of "date" not "start_date". Once corrected, this works perfectly. "format-both" would be a useful addition to the docs perhaps.