Pass Static Value to Formatter Parameters in XML View

Question

I want to call the function getCountdown with two parameters:

• The first (AuctionEnd) is dynamic from a model.
• The second should be hard

Answer 1

As far as I know, you cannot add static parts to the formatter, it can only take model values. For a combination of dynamic and static parts in a property see Expression Binding and Complex Binding Syntax.

For your case, you could add two more specialized formatter functions and call the one you need:

(You can just provide an array of path-strings in the part array.)

formatter.getCountdownTime = function (auctionEnd) {
    return formatter.getCountdown(auctionEnd, "Time");
}

formatter.getCountdownStatus = function (auctionEnd) {
    return formatter.getCountdown(auctionEnd, "Status");
}