[Koha] Possible to customize date format in notices/slips?

[Arturo Longoria]

Thank you for your help, Katrin! As a follow up, I attempted to use the dateonly placeholder for our membership expiry notice, but the generated e-mails did not display as expected. In the notice, I used the following text exactly, with a space before and after the pipe character: "Your account will expire on <<borrowers.dateexpiry | dateonly>>." But the notices that were generated say: "Your account will expire on <>" (with an empty left and right angle brackets.

Our library is on Koha 17.11.10, and looking at the database schema, I see that the borrowers.dateexpiry column is "date", not "datetime", so that could be the reason why the dateonly placeholder doesn't work? But if that's the case, why is the "12:00 AM" added if the db column is a date, not a datetime?


Arturo Longoria
Reference Librarian/Web Manager
Texas State Law Library
www.sll.texas.gov

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From: Koha <koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz> On Behalf Of Katrin Fischer
Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 00:59
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Possible to customize date format in notices/slips?

Hi Arturo,

try adding | dateonly to your placeholder variable like this:

<< biblio.timestamp | dateonly >>

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 07.11.18 15:46, Arturo Longoria wrote:
> Our library recently enabled the MEMBERSHIP_EXPIRY notice to alert patrons of expiring accounts. Currently, these notices display the expiration date along with a time (“Your account will expire on 12/06/2018 12:00 AM”), but is there a way to just display the date without the time? I read through the information on the wiki at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Customising_Notices_and_Slips as well as the manual, but I did not find any indication that the date format can be customized. I thought I’d check in with the list, though, to make sure I’m not missing anything.
>
> Thanks for any input you may have!
>
>
> Arturo Longoria
> Reference Librarian/Web Manager
> Texas State Law Library
> www.sll.texas.gov<http://www.sll.texas.gov/>
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