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Add and Format the current date

This How-To will show you how to add the current date to your template, and to format it in the desired locale and language.

Because some jobs may take a long time to process, it’s important to consider that this method will generate the date at the time each record output is generated. This means a job that takes 4 hours to output and starts at 10:00PM will have (approximately) half its records indicating one date, the other half indicating the other.

Step 1: Add the date

Adding a date to the template is straightforward, thanks to our Insert Date dialog:

Click on Insert
Click on Date
To automatically update the date for the current one, check the Update Automatically option
Select the desired date format in the list
Click OK.

Step 2: Modify Locale (OL Connect 1.4 and older)

In OL Connect versions 1.4 and older, the script added to automatically update the date does not load the locale set in the Edit, Locale dialog. This has to be done manually. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to fix this:

Double-click on the new “date” script added to the Scripts Pane
On line one, change new TextFormatter("en-US"); to new TextFormatter(locale);
Click OK to save.

This step is not necessary in OL Connect versions 1.5 and up.

Add and Format the current date

Step 1: Add the date

Step 2: Modify Locale (OL Connect 1.4 and older)

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