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Modify field template of all dynamic content item widgets | MVC

Use this article, if you want to change the way a particular field is displayed in all dynamic content MVC widgets. 

  1. Go to Sitefinity CMS GitHub repository repository and navigate to folder Telerik.Sitefinity.Frontend.DynamicContent\WidgetTemplates\Fields\Templates.
  2. Copy the content of the DateField.cshtml template.
  3. Open your project in Visual Studio and under SitefinityWebApp, create new folder named WidgetTemplates
  4. Inside folder WidgetTemplates, create a new folder and name it Fields.
  5. Inside folder Fields, create a new folder and name it Templates.
  6. Inside folder Templates, create a new .cshtml file and name it DateField.cshtml.
  7. Inside the file, to change the format of the DateTime field, enter the following:
  8. Build the solution.
  9. Regenerate the widget templates of the MVC dynamic content widgets, where you want to use the new format.
    You can do this by changing the dynamic content meta type.

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