Parses a date/time to allow evaluation and arithmetic.
Dates convert to milliseconds when used with standard comparison operators. For example, the expression (60*60*1000)
equals one hour.
A common usage of this function is to adjust the current time using a multiplication expression that represents a number of seconds, minutes, hours, or days.
The only parameter is an expression to be parsed.
Returns a Java date object, which is converted to a string for display.
Each of the following expressions returns the date and time one day in the past:
<$parseDate(dateCurrent(-1))$> <$parseDate(dateCurrent()-(24*60*60*1000))$> <$dateCurrent(-1)$> <$dateCurrent()-(24*60*60*1000)$>
Returns the time one hour in the future. The first line adds one hour using a time multiplication expression, assigns that time and date to a custom variable, and suppresses the output. The second line references the custom variable and defines that only the time is displayed:
<$exec my_customParseTime parseDate(dateCurrent()+(1000*60*60))$> <$formatTimeOnly(my_customParseTime)$>
Returns the date one year in the future. The first line adds one year using a time multiplication expression, assigns that time and date to a custom variable, and suppresses the output. The second line references the custom variable and defines that only the date in long format is displayed:
<$exec my_customParseTime parseDate(dateCurrent()+(1000*60*60*24*365))$> <$formatTimeOnly(my_customParseTime)$>
This script evaluates whether the date seven days in the future is greater than the expiration date and returns a message to the user if true:
<$if dOutDate$> <$if dateCurrent(7) > parseDate(dOutDate)$> Content item expires in one week. <$endif$> <$endif$>
This script uses parseDate
within a conditional statement for customized workflow jumps. The script specifies that if the last time we entered this step was four days ago, go to the first step in workflow wf_late and set the return step to be the next step:
<$if parseDate(wfCurrentGet("lastEntryTs")) < dateCurrent(-4)$> <$wfSet("wfJumpName", "lateJump")$> <$wfSet("wfJumpTargetStep", "step_1@wf_late")$> <$wfSet("wfJumpReturnStep", wfCurrentStep(1))$> <$wfSet("wfJumpEntryNotifyOff", "0")$> <$endif$>