Date- can you break it up into Month, day, year, so that each part of the date can be pulled into a fillable pdf separately to fill in a contract?

asked on December 18, 2018

Is there a way to retrieve only the day of the month to fill in the field on the pdf that states the day of the month.

Is there a way to retrieve only the month in order to fill only the month in the field where the month is indicated.

Is there a way to retrieve only the year so that the year can be retrieved and entered in the field for the year.

I am using this form to populate a pre-existing contract format.

Obviously I can go and edit the contract to agree with the format of the date from laserfiche but that will require approval of the new contract format which is not a quick or convenient process even with such a small change. It will also look unprofessional and may require additional edits to make the contract look right.

The contract reads...

"This Agreement is made and entered this _____ day of _____________. 20__, by and between etc."

I have already removed the "20__" and replaced it with "______" so now it reads...

"This Agreement is made and entered this _____ day of _____________, ____, by and between etc."

I would like to set it up so that the workflow inserts the day, month and year separately into it's appropriate location as indicated above onto the fillable pdf. Is that possible?

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replied on December 18, 2018 • Show version history

You can use Token Formatting in the Token Editor to extract specific parts of a Date token.

As an example, the following would extract "Dec" from the Workflow Date token.

%(Date#"MMM"#)

And you can do a wide variety of date formatting provided your source value is in the correct date format. See the following link for details

https://www.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/Laserfiche/10/en-US/administration/#../Subsystems/LFWorkflow/Content/Resources/Tokens%20and%20Regex/Token Formatting--Date and Time.htm

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replied on December 18, 2018

I couldn't find the Token editor but I was able to use the token dialog and learned a whole lot today. Thanks a lot! Worked perfectly!

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replied on December 18, 2018

The token editor is usually available when you add a token to something and right-click the token text.

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