I need to remove the entire footer from my DB documentation

kevinjpereira

Hello,
I am working on generating markdown documentation for one of our databases looking to house the documentation within the database repository.

The issue that I am running into is that I am unable to remove the "Created: <date>" from the footer in the same way that I am able to remove the author and copyright text.

The reason that I am trying to remove this string is so that the only .md files produced by SQL Doc are those that correspond to the objects that have changed since the last commit and not every object in the database. This way I don't end up having to pull request thousands of .md files where the only change is the "Created: <date>" in the footer.

Can you help?

Russell D

Hi @kevinjpereira I'm afraid not. You can edit the cover page to put in a custom string, but it requires a datetime format and can't be blank. You would need to request this on the uservoice here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BG9JVHZ, sorry we can't be more helpful at this stage.

kevinjpereira

@Russell D Thank you for your response.
Given that removing the datetime from the footer is not currently supported the first alternative that I can think of is looking to programmatically document each individual object included in the commit rather than documenting the entire database every time. However, I am not sure if that is a possibility as I don't believe that SQL Doc currently has the ability to document individual objects. Could you confirm?

Russell D

Thats correct, I'm afraid. You might get some of the way using the command line (https://documentation.red-gate.com/sdoc/using-the-command-line) but you're still going to face the same problem.