dateSource: id vs modified

Note: This documentation is for an old version of Webinator. The latest documentaion is here.

dateSource: id vs modified

The dateSource parameter allows you to determine which date associated with the URL gets used for display, sorting, etc.

Modified (default) - The time the file or page was last modified is used.
id - the time that Webinator last update its record of the file or page is used.

If a collection of files that were modified a year ago were moved and just now picked up by the Webinator crawl last night, then the Modified date would be a year ago, but the id date would be last night.

id is the default dateSource when requesting an RSS feed of a search.