[MarkLogic Dev General] Timestamp of the document when it was loaded

[David Sewell]

You can have the server maintain a "last modified" timestamp via the
Admin console: under Databases, select the database, then the Configure
tab, then set "maintain last modified" to TRUE. After that, calling
xdmp:document-get-properties($fileURI, xs:QName("prop:last-modified"))
will return the last-modified date. The server handles this
automatically.

However, that timestamp changes every time you modify the file. So if
you wanted a permanent timestamp showing the first load time, so far as
I know you would have to use xdmp:document-add-properties() as a
separate step to create a special property containing the timestamp at
loading. You could do this as part of a custom load script.

DS

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Isha Chadha wrote:

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> How to get the timestamp of the document when it was first loaded in the
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