Accessing Last Transition Date From a Template

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This is a follow-up to:

As of patch 732_2019_0510 the last transition date can be accessed from a template by updating the rxconfig/Server/ContentEditors/ContentEditorSystemDef.xml to include a mapping for the sys_lastTransitionDate field.

Display Mapping Section:

  <PSXDisplayMapping>
	             <FieldRef>sys_lasttransitiondate</FieldRef>
	             <PSXUISet>
	                 <Label>
		                        <PSXDisplayText/>
             		  </Label>
	                    <PSXControlRef id="0" name="sys_CalendarSimple">
			                     <PSXParam name="helptext">
			                        <DataLocator>
			                           <PSXTextLiteral id="0">
			                              <text>Year, month, day and time content was last transitioned.</text>
			                           </PSXTextLiteral>
			                        </DataLocator>
			                     </PSXParam>
               </PSXControlRef>
	                <ErrorLabel>
	                   <PSXDisplayText/>
	                </ErrorLabel>
	             </PSXUISet>
         </PSXDisplayMapping>

Field Mapping Section

CONTENTSTATUS LASTTRANSITIONDATE datetime 
         <OccurrenceSettings delimiter=";" dimension="optional" multiValuedType="delimited"/>
          <FieldRules>
	             <PSXVisibilityRules dataHiding="xsl">
	                <PSXRule boolean="and">
	                   <PSXConditional id="0">
	                      <variable>
	                         <PSXTextLiteral id="0">
	                            <text>1</text>
	                         </PSXTextLiteral>
	                      </variable>
	                      <operator>=</operator>
	                      <value>
	                         <PSXTextLiteral id="0">
	                            <text>2</text>
	                         </PSXTextLiteral>
	                      </value>
	                      <boolean>AND</boolean>
	                   </PSXConditional>
	                </PSXRule>
	             </PSXVisibilityRules>
 </FieldRules>
       <PSXSearchProperties enableTransformation="no" id="0" tokenizeSearchContent="no" userCustomizable="yes" userSearchable="no" visibleToGlobalQuery="yes"/>

After updating this, the sys_lastTranstionDate field will be available for use on your content type. The field may be accessed in Templates using normal syntax for accessing Content Type fields.

For example:

#field(“sys_lasttransitiondate”)