How to display the month and the year in the CV?

[ulbrichdennis]

Hi!

Although RenderCV says that the format

YYYY-MM

is okay, only the year is displayed in the CV on my website.

More concretely, I have something like

- company:  X
  position: Non-academic professional activities
   location: Y
   start_date: 9.2022
   end_date: 2.2023

in my cv.yml file but on my website, only 2022 - 2023 is displayed.

Can this be changed?

Best

[george-gca]

It is because this is being overriden in the layout. Check the education, for example:

al-folio/_includes/cv/education.liquid

Lines 21 to 24 in 196bb25

	{% comment %} Extract year only from dates like "1933-01-01" or just use "1933" as is {% endcomment %}
	{% assign startDate = start_date | split: '-' | first %}
	{% assign endDate = end_date | split: '-' | first | default: 'Present' %}
	{% assign date = startDate | append: ' - ' | append: endDate %}

So you need to change it there also. The layouts for the cv are in _includes/cv/.

[ulbrichdennis]

Ah, thanks. I changed that to

 {% if start_date != '' %}
            {% comment %} Extract month and year from dates like "1933-01" {% endcomment %}
            {% assign startDateMonth = start_date | split: '-' | last %}
            {% assign startDateYear = start_date | split: '-' | first %}
            {% assign endDateMonth = end_date | split: '-' | last %}
            {% assign endDateYear = end_date | split: '-' | first %}
            {%- assign date = startDateMonth | append: '.' | append: startDateYear | append: ' - ' | append: endDateMonth | append: '.' | append: endDateYear -%}
          {% else %}
            {% assign date = '' %}
          {% endif %}

This NEARLY what I would like to get. However, I get white spaces between the dots, that is, the result looks like

09 . 2022 - 02 . 2023

Do you have an idea how to fix that? Unfortunately, I do not know very much about this.

Best!

[george-gca]

Yes, this is a liquid language thing. Basically, where you are using {% %}, use {%- -%} instead. When you add the -, it removes spaces that it would add before and after the liquid template. For more information, check liquid whitespace control.

[ulbrichdennis]

Thanks a lot, it works.