2618153 - Date Format Issue for Generic Date Fields When Triggering a Rule

The date format of the generic date ield is causing an issue when triggering a rule that directly compares the date value against another date value.

• Employee Central
• Rules Engine

1. Create a rule that compares a date value against another date value.

2. Create rule trace.

3. In the log you will notice that the comparison of the generic date field has a date format issue as pictured below.

 

4. This highlights that the same date FEB 02 2018 is Compared against 2018-02-02 and the result is NOT EQUAL is True.

 

• This is a date Format issue within the rules engine and Engineering are aware of this.

• Engineering have confirmed that this will be fixed in the 1805 release.

There is a workaround for this, instead of comparing the date values directly, use the function Get number of calendar days() on both sides of the IF statement.

 

 

 

ECT-91862

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