Windows 2012 and Management Server 11 Installation Note

Even for basic installation, that is without the mobile client, prior to Management Server installation, ensure to go to Windows Server Manager, navigate to Add Roles and Features Wizard > Select Features > Features > .NET Framework 4.5 Features > WCF Services and select HTTP Activation.

This is important. Else one will get an error when creating a text placeholder or saving text to a text placeholder.

The error is a complaint about not about to access /cms/webservice/Elements.svc/

RedDot CMS Date Conversion in MS 11

Since COM and DCOM is going away in Management Server 11, the following RedDot date conversion code using "RDCMSAsp.RDPageData" may not work.

ASP (From RQL Manual)

...
' From an RQL assign a value to a variable
OldDate = EinObjekt("changedate")

' Convert value by calling the DecodeDate function
' and output in both variants.
response.write "Date from attribute=" & OldDate & " --> Convert date=" & DecodeDate(OldDate)
...

Function DecodeDate(OldDate)
    Dim objIO As Object                              ' Define object
    Set objIO = CreateObject("RDCMSAsp.RDPageData")  ' Create object
    DecodeDate = objIO.decodedate(OldDate)           ' Convert number into date
End Function

Here are the new code that should work in all versions.

ASP

Function ConvertToRedDotDate(DateObject)
    ConvertToRedDotDate = DateDiff("d","12/30/1899", DateObject)
End Function

Function ConvertFromRedDotDate(RedDotDate)
    Dim DateObj, Int_Days
    DateObj = "12/30/1899"
    Int_Days = Int(RedDotDate)
    DateObj = DateAdd("d",RedDotDate,DateObj)
    DateObj = DateAdd("s",(RedDotDate-Int_Days)*86400,DateObj)
    ConvertFromRedDotDate = DateObj
End Function

C#

DateTime DecodeFromOADate(double OADate)  
{  
    return DateTime.FromOADate(OADate);  
}  
  
double EncodeToOADate(DateTime RegDate)  
{  
    return RegDate.ToOADate();  
}  

JavaScript

function ConvertToRedDotDate(DateObj)
{
    // day in milliseconds
    var DAY_IN_MILLISECONDS = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
    var BEGINING_DATE_MIllISECONDS = new Date(1899,11,30).getTime();

    var DateObj_Milliseconds = DateObj.getTime();

    return Math.round(Math.abs(DateObj_Milliseconds - BEGINING_DATE_MIllISECONDS)/DAY_IN_MILLISECONDS);
}

function ConvertFromRedDotDate(ReddotDate)
{  
    var days = Math.floor(ReddotDate);
    var milliseconds = Math.round((ReddotDate-days)*86400000);
    var adjusted_days_in_millseconds = (days-25569) * 86400000;
    var RetDate = new Date();
    RetDate.setTime(adjusted_days_in_millseconds + milliseconds);
    var ajusted_minutes = RetDate.getTimezoneOffset();
    RetDate.setMinutes(RetDate.getMinutes() + ajusted_minutes);
 
    return RetDate;  
}