Matrix Version: 5.4.1.3
Has anyone updated the dates on the settings screens, that is, the last updated, last published, and asset created dates of an asset in matrix using the JSAPI before? I can’t seem to find an operation on https://matrix.squiz.net/manuals/web-services/chapters/javascript-api that updates them. I’ve found getGeneral will return the current values for dates so I’m hoping there’s an operation to change those values that’s just unlisted.
Not possible (with a fairly high degree of confidence).
It’s not a feature I’d expect to see, there will always be purposes where you want to be able to trust those dates aren’t fake. Your best bet would be to add Updated/Published/Created Metadata fields which default to the real values, then set an explicit value for those cases where you want to override the real date.
What JohnGill said, it’s not. You could instead potentially fire those updates using a trigger action instead? But I’m interested to hearing why you would want to do that? What’s the problem you are trying to solve?
Thanks for the responses. In this case we’re migrating a site in and wanted to match the published dates on files in Matrix.
I think it’s possible to create a metadata field that defaults to %asset_published% and then render that anywhere you want to display the published date.
This will allow JS API to set the date.
You can also set up a trigger to set the metadata field back to “default” on asset status change (to live) to ensure that future publishes of the asset update the metadata.