Tip: Changing "@Created" time

Tue 23 Mar 2004, 03:02 PM

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by Ben Langhinrichs
There was an interesting interchange in the R4&5 Gold forum today about setting the date which a document reports with @Created.  Rod Whiteley suggests changing the part of the UNID which represents the date and time, which will work, but has some major drawbacks, such as breaking links to the document, orphaning responses to the document, etc.  Sometimes it is better to stay inside the box.  A better approach is to set the $Created field with a timedate, which will change what Notes uses for @Created and the NotesDocument.Created property.  It is still possible to find the original document creation date by looking at the document properties, which seem to use the UNID, but this will fix replication problems and issues where the @Modified is earlier than @Create.

The $Created field does not seem to be documented in the Help files, but it is documented in the C API header files in STDNAME.H, where it says:

/* Created date, if specified overrides UNID created date for @Created */
#define   FIELD_CREATED   "$Created"

So, if you are experiencing trouble because your @Created is incorrect, you can create an agent such as:

FIELD $Created := @Modified;
""

and run it on the selected documents.  Voila!

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