Question

TimeSincePlugin does not work as expected in the SEARCH{"text"}

I would like to use TimeSincePlugin to show how old is a change of page in easily readable way.

I have following in 25 most recent topic changes in Codev, Plugins, TWiki, Support webs:

%TABLE{sort="on" initsort="1" initdirection="up"}%
| *Last Modified* | *Web.Topic* | *Last Editor* | *Edit Age* |
%SEARCH{ "." regex="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" limit="%URLPARAM{"limit" default="3"}%" web="%URLPARAM{"web" default="TWiki, Main"}%" excludetopic="WebStatistics" reverse="on" order="modified" format="| $date - [[%SCRIPTURL%/compare%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic?_foo=$rev][diff]] / [[%SCRIPTURL%/rdiff%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic?type=last&render=sequential&context=9000&_foo=$rev#diff001][in-line diff]] - $rev | [[%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic#foo_$rev][$web.$topic(35, ...)]] | $wikiusername " | %TIMESINCE{ from=$date }% |}%

Neither above solution in last table column nor solutions below work for me. I get a table data converted into one row without any space = something completely unreadable.

| %TIMESINCE{ from="$date" }% |
| %TIMESINCE{ from=$date   }% |
| %TIMESINCE{ from=%MAKETEXT{"[_1]" args=$date}% }% |
| %TIMESINCE{ from=%MAKETEXT{"[_1]" args=" $date "}% }% |

Could someone give me a hint how should directive TIMESINCE use $date variable to obtain proper result?

Or is it some bug in TimeSincePlugin?

For example

| %MAKETEXT{"[_1]" args="$date"}% |

as a last table column renders the $date variable well.

Thank you in advance!

Here is an example how TWiki renders the table (need TimeSincePlugin installed):

Last Modified	Web.Topic	Last Editor	Edit Age

%SEARCH{ "." regex="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" limit="3" web="Walter, WKUWS, TWiki, Main" excludetopic="WebStatistics" reverse="on" order="modified" format="| $date - diff / in-line diff - $rev | $web.$topic(35, ...) | $wikiusername | %TIMESINCE{ from=$date }% |" }%

Environment

-- DaliborSvoboda - 02 Mar 2006

Answer

There's a syntax error in the above SEARCH: the closing quote in the format string is at the wrong position. Furthermore, the TIMESINCE expression is evaluated before the SEARCH expression. You need to escape quotes using \" and rewrite % as $percnt. See FormattedSearch for more help. Good luck .

-- MichaelDaum - 02 Mar 2006

Thanks a lot! It works now.

Sorry for stupid question...

The solution is: | $percntTIMESINCE{ from=\" $date \" }$percnt |

-- DaliborSvoboda - 03 Mar 2006