Date formatting in the label display

Developers
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Hi,

I wanted to apply the format-date () function with one of hidden value (hv_checklist_date) having date in the displaying label by using the below syntax

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But its not working (below screenshot) as expected, so do we have any option to apply date formatting into the label.

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Kindly suggest.

Thanks and regards,
Gurudayal Sahu

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Hi Gurudayal,

I'm not sure if I fully understand your question. But the syntax for format-date accepts 2 arguments, a date(which you want to convert) and a string(a format in which you want to convert your date).

format-date(date(#form/hv_checklist_date), "%a, %e %b %Y")

If you're want to format current date, you can simply write

format-date(now(), "%a, %e %b %Y")
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Hi Shivam,

It will work perfectly fine once it is defined through hidden value calculation field. But in this case,I wanted to apply format-date() function directly in the Label Text by referring the date saved in the hidden value field (hv_checklist_date) through image ,but it is not working, hence looking for the correct syntax, in case it support.

Hope i am able to share the required details.

Thanks and regards,
Sahu

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I'm still not sure if I understand it correctly, but assuming that you want to save this date calculation to a Label, here's how you can do it.

  • You can have a hidden value(let's say calculated_date_hidden_val) that does the date calculation and then in your label you can add the display text as :
<output value="#form/calculated_date_hidden_val" />
  • Or, you can simply write the whole query in the output value on the display text of your label, like this:
<output value='format-date(now(), "%a, %e %b %Y")' />
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Thanks for the reply, it worked!

<output value='format-date(now(), "%a, %e %b %Y")' />

I was not sure that, even the above syntax can work directly without referring any case / form properties field value.

This is helpful.

Thanks and regards,
Gurudayal Sahu