Formatting the object name pattern

Tuesday 28 November 2006 9:03:19 am

I've just created a content class for an on-line version of a magazine (it's called Link, that's what I will call it in this post).

Link appears every two months and I'd like the title to be 'Link Octobre 2006', for example.

The content class contains a 'date' attribute, and I'd like to use that for the name pattern because I'd like the node name to be automatically translated (our site runs in 3 languages).

The object name pattern looks like this:

Link <date>

The name then gets expanded to:

Link Monday 20 November 2006

However, I'd like it to be

Link November 2006

Is there a way of doing this automatically? Or do I have to use a text-line for the date where our editors put in 'November 2006' (which would be rather uncool :)

What I'm looking for is a way to be more specific about the name pattern, perhaps something like this:

Link <date:formatoptions> or
Link <date.month|date.year>

or whatever. Preferably a solution that doesn't imply writing code.

Thanks in advance.

Wednesday 29 November 2006 4:00:30 am

Does that ONLY affect the name dates get parsed in the title creation? If so, I think I can live with that. Dates are rarely part of title anyway.

I will write a kernel override and post it here - thanks for the help and the precise directions.