Splitting on Date/Calendar field

Date/Calendar properties can be split based on either the complete date (string value yyyy-mm-dd) or the yyyy -> mm --> dd format.

Split data belonging to a single date in one folder by default. Here nodes belonging to 2011-06-13 will go to a folder 2011-06-13/

Split data belonging to a year in one folder.

<propertyAnnotations> 
    <property name="dataField"> 
        <fieldAnnotation> 
            <splitPattern>yyyy</splitPattern> 
        </fieldAnnotation> 
    </property> 
</propertyAnnotations>

Here nodes belonging to 2011-06-13 will go to a folder 2011/.

split data belonging to a month in a year in a folder. There is a folder for year and subfolders for month inside them.

<propertyAnnotations> 
    <property name="dataField"> 
        <fieldAnnotation> 
            <splitPattern>yyyy-mm</splitPattern> 
        </fieldAnnotation> 
    </property> 
</propertyAnnotations>

Here nodes belonging to 2011-06-13 will go to a folder 2011/06/.

split data belonging to a date in folder that is subdivided to year, month, and day folders.

<propertyAnnotations> 
    <property name="dataField"> 
        <fieldAnnotation> 
            <splitPattern>yyyy-mm-dd</splitPattern> 
        </fieldAnnotation> 
    </property> 
</propertyAnnotations>

Here nodes belonging to 2011-06-13 will go to a folder 2011/06/13/.