itemUpdated data

Thanks Drew, I will see what I can do

It works but shows up in the editing form as an editable text field, is there a way to hide it from an editor?

Hello Marc,

You can use type="hidden".

Hi Hussein,

I have already tried that as I thought that be the solution but no luck.

Can you show us your template? A field with type hidden shouldn't show on an edit form.

<perch:content id="display" type="select" label="Display notification?" options="Yes|true, No|false" divider-before="Options" suppress="true" order="100" />
<perch:content id="itemUpdated" type="hidden" />

<perch:if id="display" value="true">
    <div class="mfp-modal mfp-hide" id="notification-modal" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="mfp-modal-heading">
        <perch:if exists="image">
            <div class="mfp-modal-img img">
                <img src="<perch:content id="image" type="image" label="Image" width="960" bucket="content" help="960px" order="11" />" alt="<perch:content id="alt" type="text" label="Alt text" help="A small bit of text to describe your image" order="12" />" />
            </div>
        </perch:if>
        <div class="mfp-modal-inner">
            <div class="body text-center">
                <h2 id="mfp-modal-heading" class="typography-heading"><perch:content id="heading" type="smarttext" label="Heading" html="false" required="true" escape="true" order="1" /></h2>
                <!-- TODO: Introduce basic editor option -->
                <perch:template path="content/body-basic.html" />
                <perch:if exists="button">
                    <a href="<perch:content id="url" type="text" label="URL" help="https://www.example.com or /section/page" order="14" />" class="mfp-modal-button button button--primary" role="button"><perch:content id="button" type="text" label="Button" divider-before="Button" order="13" /></a>
                </perch:if>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</perch:if>

Marc Sanders

This template seems to function as it should. It does not show the field in the edit form for me and outputs the timestamp to the page when the edit form is saved.

It seems to work when using perch_content but not with perch_content_custom

perch_content_custom() outputs content from an existing region. It doesn't affect your region's edit form.

Is there another method to access this field? Maybe through the api?

You may be overthinking it a little.

The particular region is shared.

Create the shared region:

perch_content_create('My Region' , [
   'template' => 'my_template.html',
   'shared' => true,
]);

Output the region using my_template.html:

perch_content_custom('My Region');

Or if you wish to use a different template to output it:

perch_content_custom('My Region'. [
   'template' => 'my_other_template.html',
]);

You should be able to use the itemUpdated field in the template you use for output.