Can't correct date output format get to work about kirby-pagetable

[mattwolff]

I'm having the same issue. I'm unable to specify how dates are formatted. As a temporary workaround (NOT a fix), I've changed my column to be a text field type: text.

columns:
  title:
      label: Title
      text: '{{ page.title }}'
      type: text
  date:
      label: Date
      type: text
      text: '{{ page.date.toDate('M. d, Y') }}'
      # for only years like 2014 use 'Y'
      # text: '{{ page.date.toDate('Y') }}'

Could this have something to with how tbl-for-kirby handles dates?

[christianschley]

Have you tried this yet?

text: '{{ page.earliestdate.toDate }}'

or:
text: '{{ page.earliestdate.toDate('YYYY') }}'

[trych]

I tried it now, both these options result in the output Invalid date.

[trych]

Nice! This works for me.
But, as you said, since this is not an actual fix for the feature, I will leave the issue open for now.

[romanustin]

Also having this problem, thanks for hint. By the way, it was working as "type: date" with earlier version of Kirby, about year ago. Would work like this:

date:
    label: Date
    type: date
    text: '{{ page.modified("Y-m-d-H-i") }}'
    dateInputFormat: 'YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm'
    dateOutputFormat: 'DD-MM, HH:mm'

[therephil]

tbl-for-kirby specifies how the date is formatted without an option to style it: https://github.com/distantnative/tbl-for-kirby/blob/master/src/component/Table.vue#L544

so the dateInputFormat and dateOutputFormat keys are obsolete since c731edd.

[sylvainjule]

I will revert to using vue-good-table for now, so this formatting rule will apply. Keeping tbl is hard to maintain for me.

I will probably update to something like a tbl-for-kirby custom-made for this section (but keeping the compatibility for this date format thing), like Retour does now (which shared the use of tbl previously) whenever I find time to work on the enhancement requests.