How to change the date format in an email using liquid

stella_issupow

Hi everybody, greetings from Germany!

I want to display the date format of a custom property in an email in a different way.

In the propery, we save the date in this format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.

I'd like to display the property in the email in this format: DD.MM.YYYY

Does anybody know how I can achieve that?

Thanks so much for your support!

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Arso

Hey Stella,

Try this:

{{event_properties.${datepropertyname} | date: "%d.%m.%Y" }}

It's the same syntax for custom attributes, just add "|" after the first closing curly bracket and define the format of the date attribute.

DavidO

Hi @stella_issupow

To add to @Arso's great answer here is a reference for time formatting conventions:
strftime reference

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Arso

Hey Stella,

Try this:

{{event_properties.${datepropertyname} | date: "%d.%m.%Y" }}

It's the same syntax for custom attributes, just add "|" after the first closing curly bracket and define the format of the date attribute.

DavidO

Hi @stella_issupow

To add to @Arso's great answer here is a reference for time formatting conventions:
strftime reference

stella_issupow

Ok, it's working now! Thanks so much 👍

kppool

Does this work for custom attributes? I can't seem to make this set up work:
{{custom_attribute.${next_club_delivery_date}|date:"%d.%m.%Y"}}

sparkplant

Hi @kppool

this will work with custom attributes as well.
Please make sure, that the field is recognized as a date-type in Braze: See Custom Attributes Data Types

You can take a look under Data Settings > Custom Attributes to see if Braze automatically detects the data type.

ML_Spain

Ciao, @Arso and @DavidO need to bring this topic up again, as I'd like to know if this is possible also with api.trigger properties. Not sure about it

Thanks a lot

Arso

You should be able to do it, if the api call is built properly. You need to have a trigger_properties object within the api call, where you can put all the properties that you want to use and reference in the communication.

Then, a simple {{ api_trigger_properties.${datepropertyname} | date: "%d.%m.%Y" }} would do the trick.