Formatting a date

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Good to know: Check out our ready-made templates available when you add a step and select Step templates > Utilities. You can use the templates to create a set of pre-configured steps.

1. Create Date Input

   1. Access your workflow and create a form step at the right point in the workflow.
   2. Add a Date Input form field to the step.

2. Create the date formatting step

   1. Create an integration step after the date input step.

   2. Click Settings and enter the following configuration data:

      • Method: POST
      • URL: https://integrations.nextmatter.com/g/utils/formatdate
      • Headers: Content-Type: application/json
      • Body:
        
   
   
   Multi-date formatting example

   JSON

   [{"date": "[use data reference]", 
   "format_string": "%d.%m.%Y"},
   {"date": "[use data reference]", 
   "format_string": "%d.%m.%Y"}, ...]
   

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Note: For multiple dates you need to make the result available by adding variables in Response data for use in later steps for every formatted date as follows:
Name: formatted_date_1
Value: $.ple
Name: formatted_date_2
Value: $.ple

Available date formats

You can change the date format to any desired format by changing the format_string. Get your custom format string with the help of the examples:

03/March/2021 - %d/%B/%Y

03.03.21 - %d/%m/%y