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stella_issupow's avatar
stella_issupow
Active Member II
2 years ago

How to change the date format in an email using liquid

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!

Liquid
  • Arso's avatar
    Arso
    2 years ago

    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. 

  • Arso's avatar
    Arso
    Practitioner III
    2 years ago

    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. 

    • kppool's avatar
      kppool
      Active Member
      2 months ago

      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's avatar
        sparkplant
        Active Member
        2 months ago

        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.