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2994018 - Placeholder in Email text or email Subject is not showing the Correct Date Format

Symptom

Placeholder in e-mail text or e-mail Subject is not showing the Correct Date Format.

Environment

SAP Business By Design

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to the Application and User Management work centre
  2. Go to the Form Template maintenance view
  3. Find a Customer invoice
  4. Click Actions
  5. Either create an e-mail template or maintain an e-mail subject.

Result: the date format will be that which is maintained in the template.

Cause

Neither the e-mail template nor the e-mail subject can be converted via a script.

Resolution

If if the placeholder is  XML <PaymentDate>2020-11-27</PaymentDate> please be aware that the date format will be shown as

2020-11-27. As of now there is no way of converting this format into i.e. 27.11.2010

Keywords

E-mail Template, e-mail Subject, date format , KBA , AP-RC-OUT , Output Management , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions