Hi,

We do keep a last modified timestamp on the Pages. Currently its only used in the SiteMap.ashx page which is used to submit your site map to google. It allows google to know better when a page has been updated and needs to be re-indexed.

We currently don't have a feature for this, but it would be easy to create a .NET control that could be added to the layout.master page of a skin and show the last modified time of each content system page. However showing who last modified is a bit more complicated because no edits occur directly on a page but on content instances which happen to be on pages but which could be on more than one page. So it might be better to implement something at the content instance level to show last modified information for each instance of content rather than doing it at the page level. If the page only has one content instance on it then this would appear much the same as if it were at the page level.

I will keep this in mind but I can't commit to any specific timeline for this unless someone wants to sponsor it and make it a priority.

Best,

Joe

You don't need to use SiteMap nodes for this. If you page inherits from mojoBasePage, you can do this:

if(CurrentPage != null)
{
lastModified.Text = CurrentPage.LastModifiedUtc.ToString();
}

If you're not using mojoBasePage, you can get current page with:

using mojoPortal.Business.WebHelpers;

PageSettings currentPage = CacheHelper.GetCurrentPage();

Hope it helps,

Joe

Hi Tracey,

I started implementing a control for this a while back, and finished it today, it should be in svn trunk by late tonight.

You can add it to layout.master like this:

<span style="color:White;font-weight:bold;"><portal:PageLastModified ID="pageLastMod" runat="server" Visible="false" /></span>

of course you can style it as you wish, the above example is for styleshout-brightsideoflife skin

If you have the current svn trunk, the control actually exists already there but you need to add it to Web.config <pages><controls> like this:

<add tagPrefix="portal" tagName="PageLastModified" src="~/Controls/PageLastModified.ascx" />

It will only show the date using the one currently in svn trunk, but once you get the new version it will show a label as well and has a few properties you can configure like LabelText and ShowTime.

Also if you use the same id as I did, "pageLastMod", you can set Visible to false and this will hide it on non-content system pages. Content Pages are pages in the menu, they are all handled by Default.aspx.cs and there we look for the control with this id and make it visible if it exists.

Hope it helps,

Joe