Parsing Dates To or From a String

Overview

Datetime objects can be parsed into a formatted String to be displayed to be displayed in a Report or a Form. This can be done using the Parse Date With Format and Get Formatted Date steps within a Flow.

Using the Parse Date With Format Step

1. From Designer Project, click CREATE FLOW and select Flow. Enter a Name for the Flow and click CREATE. 
2. Add the Parse Date With Format step from the DATA > DATES category on the Toolbox tab to the Start step.
3. From the Properties tab of the step, enter "yyyy/MM/dd" in the Format field under the INPUTS category. In the Date field, enter "2022/02/04". 
   The Format field is case sensitive requires a valid DateTime String Format to properly read the Date value. 

   

4. Connect the Done path to the End step. Click Save to save changes.
5. Click Debug from the top action bar and click START DEBUGGING. After the debugger runs, select the Parse Date with Format step, select Execution 1, and select View Input/Output Data. 
   The output from the step will be formatted as a DateTime value in the configured format. 

   

Using the Get Formatted Date

1. Add the Get Formatted Date step from the DATA > DATES category of the Toolbox tab to the Start step.
2. From the Properties panel, click Unknown and select Constant Date for the Date field. For this example, leave the default value under the Format field unchanged.  
3. Debug the Flow and select View Input/Output Data for the Get Formatted Date step. 
   The resulting Output String will be the Date Input in the style dictated by the Format input.