I have a requirement to convert the DATE FORMAT of NOW() to MM-DD-YYYY in formula editor. By doing using DATETIME.format() i can do it in APEX Classes, but i cannot get the same value in FORMULA EDITOR
There is an idea out on the idea exchange for TIMEVALUE which I recommend voting up here, but until then it looks like you will need to a timezone offset to get the time as a string.
TEXT(MONTH(DATEVALUE(NOW())))+"/" +TEXT(DAY(DATEVALUE(NOW())))+"/" +TEXT(YEAR(DATEVALUE(NOW()))) & " " &
MID(TEXT(NOW()-tzoffset), 12, 2) & ":" &
MID(TEXT(NOW()-tzoffset), 15, 2) & ":" &
MID(TEXT(NOW()-tzoffset ), 18, 2)
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Thank you for your suggestion !! It worked well .. And i was using EST time values so my TZoffset is 0.166 !! Thanks jjbennett – AjaySFDC Aug 14 '14 at 11:37
You can use the MONTH, DAY and YEAR formula functions to do this as shown below. These functions return an Integer so you will need to wrap them in TEXT() to convert them to a String
TEXT(MONTH(DATEVALUE(NOW())))
& '-'
& TEXT(DAY(DATEVALUE(NOW())))
& '-'
& TEXT(YEAR(DATEVALUE(NOW())))
If you use TODAY() rather than NOW() you don't need to convert from DateTime to Date and the formula gets a little simplier
TEXT(MONTH(TODAY()))
& '-'
& TEXT(DAY(TODAY()))
& '-'
& TEXT(YEAR(TODAY()))
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When i use TEXT(MONTH(DATEVALUE(NOW()))), this does not return TIME values for the DATETIME field. It just gives only Dateformat as i desire. But i need time value. Something like this , "8-13-2014 19:14:00" – AjaySFDC Aug 13 '14 at 13:44
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if you are just after date, you can use TODAY instead of NOW
give this a try and see if it works for you
TEXT(MONTH(TODAY()) & '-' & DAY(TODAY()) & '-' & YEAR(TODAY()))
answered Aug 13 '14 at 12:41
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My requirement is to use NOW() a DATETIME datatype. I tried using TODAY(), its suppressing my time values for the same. – AjaySFDC Aug 13 '14 at 12:43
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