RE: datetext() appears to increment the year if it's used December27 -December 31st

zakarym0001 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:37:17 GMT

Awesome, great catch! Switched to the all lower 'yyyy' and everything looks as expected. Thanks for the help!

RE: datetext() appears to increment the year if it's used December27 -December 31st

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:59:34 GMT

Confirmed this behavior occurs for me in my 22.1 environment. Good catch. I'd recommend opening a support case with Appian to serve as an official Bug Report.I don't use dateText() very much because I usually find text() serves my purposes (and i use a custom expression rule with text() but wrapped in a null-checker, i.e. rule!GLBL_saveText()).

Edit: i just noticed the "format" parameter in the dateText function instructions say to write the year as "yyyy", while yours are uppercase. If you convert your "YYYY"s to lower case it appears to work. From the documentation, it looks as if upper-case "Y" is used to indicate a special case called "Week Year". This is the first I've heard of that but it looks as if it explains the quirk you've encountered.