we are in a situation where the documents on our site are not the children of the pages they are linked from …
so our structure is something like this in the asset mao
Page 1
page 1.1
page 1.1.1
Page 2
Page 3
page 3.1
page 3.1.1
Documents <folder>
When someone just needs to replace a document on page 1.1 but does not need to update the page page, then the published date on page remains the same
for example
Joe updates document 1 that is linked on page 1, page 1.1 has a published date on the footer of 1 march 2011
after document is made live, page 1.1 still has a published date in the footer of 1 march 2011
Other than manual handling of the page, can we do anything to make it so when document is made live page 1.1 has a new modified date <current date document was
published>
Thansk
The last published date is the current page asset's "attribute" it has nothing to do with the linked files.
The way to get it work is to nest the asset listing pages in the page's parse file which look up for the linked file assets with link type "notice". Actually there requires two asset listing pages, one looks down in the tree to find the current page's content div, and the second one looks for file assets to pick up the most latest one's last published date. I did this for our editors to hook up a limbo editing link to update linked files, so it's restricted to editors only (not taking too much system resources). If it's open for public I personally would not do this.
Edit: fix typo