Extracting create date?

[jager13579]

Is it possible to extract the create date from a newly uploaded document? I am aware that the Auditable aspect automatically updates this value with the current date and protects it from updating manually. However, if I disable this from being applied to cmbject, the extractors still don't seem to be taking the value that is in the metadata of the file. It still gets all the other information like author, title, etc. but anything associated in the past with the Auditable aspect doesn't get applied. Looking at the extractor properties files in the source, I believe it should be getting this attribute. Would anyone be able to possibly point out why I still can't get the create date from any file type I import? Thanks.

[derek]

Hi,
The cm:auditable properties are protected from direct modification and an assumed part of the system; setting the modified time will always set the modified time to 'now'; there is no way to disable the behaviour.  If you want to record the document's metadata-driven modification time, route the value to some other property on an aspect of your own devising using a different property mapping: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction#Configuring_the_Extractor
Regards