dateToString() | Decadis App Help Center

This function returns the date part of a timestamp of any given date in text form.

Bash

dateToString(timestamp, timeZone, language) #Output: Text

Parser Expression	Description
Bash `dateToString({issue.created}, LOCAL, USER_LANG)`	This example could return: 18/May/20
Bash `dateToString({issue.created}, LOCAL, SERVER_LANG)`	This example could return: 18/Mai/20

Parser Expression

Description

Bash

dateToString({issue.created}, LOCAL, USER_LANG)

This example could return:

18/May/20

Bash

dateToString({issue.created}, LOCAL, SERVER_LANG)

This example could return:

18/Mai/20

Parameters used in this function

Parameter	Input (data type)	Description
`timestamp`	number	The parameter must be valid timestamp. Usually this value is retrieved from a field (e.g. due date, created date).
`timeZone`	timezone	The time zone used for the calculation.
`language`	language	The language used for the conversion.

Days might depend on the time zone - it might be Sunday on the west coast of the US while at the same time it's already Monday in Australia.

If you want to convert a text into a date, please see stringToDate().

This function returns a text

📚 Use cases and examples

Use case	Workflow function	Field type	Automated action	Parser functions
Last comment, its author, and timestamp		Text		userFullName() dateToString() last() allCommentDates()
Close tickets after version release			Transition issue action	dateToString() first() releaseDates()
Display historic due dates		Text		toString() textOnNumberList() fieldHistory() dateToString()
Create a sub-task for every recurring deadline within a task	Create issue			addMonths() getMatchingValue() dateToString()