How to get current date in email templates in designer?

Which version are you using?

Markus,

I would like to know how to add current date in email template for Identity Manager 8.1.

Lu

For the current date (at the point in time the mail is sent by the Job Service) you need to create a custom function (Dialog Script) that returns the current date as a string. In the mail template, you can call the script via $Script(<Name of the function>)$.

Markus,

I got this to work using a script and calling it from the mail template.

One thing is I do not want timestamp. I tried the following but some reason it keeps showing timestamp.

Public Function CCC_VI_BuildAttestation_Custom_Date() As Date
   Dim todaysDate As Date = Date.Now
   Return todaysDate
End Function

I also tried Date.Today and it shows the time but with 12:00 AM on all dates.

Lu

Markus,

I got this to work using a script and calling it from the mail template.

One thing is I do not want timestamp. I tried the following but some reason it keeps showing timestamp.

Public Function CCC_VI_BuildAttestation_Custom_Date() As Date
   Dim todaysDate As Date = Date.Now
   Return todaysDate
End Function

I also tried Date.Today and it shows the time but with 12:00 AM on all dates.

Lu

I suggest you re-write the script so that you can control the date-formatting in the script and return the formatted string.

Public Function CCC_VI_BuildAttestation_Custom_Date() As String
   Dim todaysDate As Date = Date.Now
   Return todaysDate.ToString("d")
End Function

Here some links about the .NET date and time format strings.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-date-and-time-format-strings

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime.tostring?view=netframework-4.7.2

Thank you Markus! When i wrote it out in visual studio it worked fine with date.now.

I'm still new to .net I appreciate the help.

Lu