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paulh4005
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Mar 6, 2023 10:12 AM UTC
Question

Dynamically setting date in Cucumber for Appian tests

Hi,

I'm using v22.4 of Cucumber for Appian and am trying to make sense of the following entry in the CheatSheet.feature file:

# Used as relative datetime for date/time fields:
Given I set start datetime
Is there a way to dynamically set the date and then use as input in dd/mm/yyyy string format? I'm struggling to find any good documentation on this.
Thanks,
Paul

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paulh4005Author
New Participant
Apr 17, 2023 1:25 PM UTC

Anyone have anything on this?

jesseh0002
Participating Frequently
Jun 14, 2023 8:44 PM UTC

When you say "dynamically," do you mean a random date? If so, then yes. If you can set it to the current date, that would also be a yes. Both of these, I believe, would require you to create a custom step definition and implement some custom code.

Random Date

String day = randomNumber (range of 1-29)

String month = random month (range of 1-12)

String year = random year (range of for example 2000-2023)

String date = randomday+"/"+randomMonth+"/"+randomyear

Current Date

For this, you need to look up basic Java code to get the current date and time. You have to create a formatter to format the date the way you want, then use another class that gets the current date. This gets saved to a string.

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