email this issue - how to set date to dd/mmm/yy in the email?

[tom]

how do i set the format of a date field in an email template to dd/mmm/yy? default is yyyy-mm-dd hhmmss

[Tibor Hegyi _META-INF_]

The related documentation page is here: https://www.meta-inf.hu/display/PLUG/How+to+Format+Date+and+Time+Values

One example is: 

#set($formatter = $!jetiFieldFormatter.getJavaDateTimeFormat("dd/MMM/yy")
$!jetiFieldFormatter.formatSafely($formatter, $issue.getCustomFieldValue("customfield_12345"))

[tom]

Thanks for your prompt reply,

Do i just include the first line anywhere in the email? and the second line where i want the value to display? it is giving me an error. with ALOT more line.

An error occurred whilst rendering this message. Please contact the administrators, and inform them of this bug. Details: ------- org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException: Encountered "/" at getEncodedBodyFromContent[line 3, column 2] Was expecting one of: "[" ... "{" ... "(" ... <WHITESPACE> ... <STRING_LITERAL> ... "true" ... "false" ... <INTEGER_LITERAL> ... <FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ... <IDENTIFIER> ... "{" ... <LOGICAL_NOT> ... at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.evaluate(RuntimeInstance.java:1202)

[Tibor Hegyi _META-INF_]

Sorry, a closing parenthesis was missing, it is correct in this: 

#set($formatter = $!jetiFieldFormatter.getJavaDateTimeFormat("dd/MMM/yy"))

You can put this anywhere in the template, the best is to put right at the first place you need the formatter.

[tom]

thank you so much, to think all this time i did it right but missed a bracket! thank you so much.

[santhosh]

in which file we need to place the above code.

please help

[Tibor Hegyi _META-INF_]

Place it in your email template that you create with JETI.

See our docs: https://www.meta-inf.hu/display/PLUG/Customize+the+Template+Used+by+Email+Button

[santhosh]

hi

thanks for the reply

Iam not able to find this 

1. Go to JETI Administration / Templates (JIRA_BASE_URL/secure/admin/jeti/jetiTemplates.jspa)