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--- en:user:gs3_sample_interface_modifications [2019/09/24 00:33] – [Total documents in library] kjdon
+++ en:user:gs3_sample_interface_modifications [2019/10/21 22:18] – [Changing the collection description] kjdon
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 <gslib> elements are shortcuts to predefined templates, and can be found in web/interfaces/default/transform/gslib.xsl. See the [[en:user:gslib|gslib page]] for more details.
-Lets leave the collection description displayed as is, but output "This collection contains X documents, and was last built on Y".
+Lets leave the collection description displayed as is, but also output "This collection contains X documents, and was last built on Y".
 We can redefine the template as:
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 </code>
-<gslib:collectionMeta> can retrieve metadata elements from the collection (as opposed to from documents). Here we use it to retrieve "numDocs" metadata - the number of documents in the colleciton.
+<gslib:collectionMeta> can retrieve metadata elements from the collection (as opposed to from documents). Here we use it to retrieve "numDocs" metadata - the number of documents in the collection - and "buildDate" metadata - the date the collection was last built.
 The buildDate metadata element is a timestamp, so is not user friendly. We can use one of our utility functions to format it.
+Utility functions are defined in src/java/org/greenstone/gsdl3/util/XSLTUtil.java.
+In this case, we are formatting the timestamp as a date (the second 0). We could also format it as 'days ago' (using 3 instead of 0):
+<code>
+The collection contains <gslib:collectionMeta name="numDocs"/> documents, and was last
+   built <xsl:value-of select="util:formatTimeStamp($raw_date, 0, 3, /page/@lang)"/> days ago.
+</code>
+If we want this text to be displayed in a language dependent manner, then we need to define it in the properties file, (and translate it in the appropriate language properties file), and retrieve it from there.
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