Jiwa

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:48 am**

If

Code: Select all: manager.Database.ReadSysData(PluginName, "IncludeBackOrders", "0").ToString()

will read a plugins system setting how do I update it through code?

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:58 am**

Code: Select all: manager.Database.SaveSysData(PluginName, "IncludeBackOrders", "0");

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:01 am**

Thanks

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:24 pm**

What about for a datetime do you need to format up a string and if so what format?

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2021 3:12 pm**

SBarnes wrote:What about for a datetime do you need to format up a string and if so what format?

ISO-8601 format - we actually don't do this ourselves (logged as DEV-8616) but you should store as ISO 8601 format (in .NET use the "s" format specifier). We happily read ISO 8601 format dates and will display them in the format of the system culture, but sadly we write them back currently in the short date format of the system culture.

So, use .ToString("s") - that'll produce a string like "2021-02-24T00:00:00".

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:26 pm**

How can I convert the string from manager.Database.ReadSysData(PluginName, "ISOUpdate", "0").ToString(); to a datetime the following with a format of MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt isn't working which is pretty much the format it is?

Code: Select all: public static DateTime ToDateTime(this string value, string format = "") { DateTime outdate = DateTime.Now; if (format == "") { format = SettingsVault.DateTimeFormat; } if (DateTime.TryParseExact(value, format, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces, out outdate)) { return outdate; } else { return DateTime.MinValue; } }

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:49 pm**

ParseExact (which should behave the same in terms of formatting interpretation) worked for me when I provided a format matching what you describe ("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt")

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If you can't get that to work, then I'd be wanting the exact format you're using and the exact string value you are attempting to convert.

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:52 pm**

I found a simpler solution

Code: Select all: DateTime dtTest = (DateTime)manager.Database.ReadSysData(PluginName, "ISOUpdate", "0");

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:01 pm**

SBarnes wrote:I found a simpler solution

Code: Select all
DateTime dtTest = (DateTime)manager.Database.ReadSysData(PluginName, "ISOUpdate", "0");

There might be some problems if you have a machines with different formats reading the same data - so a machine using US date format MM/dd/yyyy will interpret the string "01/07/2021" differently to machine using AU date formats. Which is why I recommend storing in ISO 8601 yyyy-MM-dd format. Doesn't help that we have a shortcoming in our own System settings form which uses the machine culture format - but we're gonna fix that!

Right now, if you do have a mix of clients with different culture / regional formats then you're going to have a bad time.

We sorted this all out with dates for custom fields - we just didn't think to apply the same to system settings of type date.

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:09 pm**

Just an idea but maybe something similar to the functions on the generic object object collection like SetOrUpdate would be helpful on the custom field??

As for the cast it should be ok as this is on a scheduled plugin where the customers server is also a remote server i.e. all clients and services on the same server.

But given I also need to do a similar thing for another client I may just revert to using text custom fields that way I can control the going in and coming out.

Jiwa

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