Using Date fields in Slugs

A slug field creates a URL-safe slug from the content of one (or more) of the other fields in an edit form. A common usage would be to create a slug from a title:

<perch:content id="title" type="text" label="Title">
<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" for="title">

Or you can use multiple fileds:

<perch:content id="name" type="text" label="Product Name">
<perch:content id="sku" type="text" label="Product SKU">
<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" for="name sku">

However, when it comes to dates you have to specify which part of the date (year, month, day, hour, minute) you want to add. So if you have a date field eventDate and you want to use the year, you would use eventDate_year:

<perch:content id="name" type="text" label="Event Name">
<perch:content id="eventDate" type="date" label="Event Date">
<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" for="eventDate_year name">

You can add multiple parts:

<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" for="eventDate_year eventDate_month eventDate_day name">

Native controls

Note that the above doesn’t work if you enable browsers native control for the date field:

<perch:content id="eventDate" type="date" label="Event Date" native>

In this case, you should be able to use eventDate in the for attribute like normal:

<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" for="eventDate name">