How to get previous day's date

[kamal.chawla]

Hi
I want to get previous day's date in one variable.
By doing $date$ -1 , the result given is "19-Aug-2008 - 1"

Thanking all in advance.

[forumsupport]

Hello,

Can you please tell us, are you using $date$ -1 with 'Variable Operation' command command?

For your reference we have attached the task that prints yesterdays date in a notepad using Variable Operation command.

Please copy it under location, 'C:\...\My Documents\Automation Anywhere\Automation Anywhere\My Tasks' folder.

Hope that helps.

[kamal.chawla]

Thanks a lot.
I was doing variable operation also but using one variable which was initialised earlier. I took new variable and currently it is working.

Is there a way to format this value to say "yyyymondd"

[forumsupport]

Hello,

You can configure format of Date variable from Tools->Variable Manager->System Variable->Date. Click on '...' button and select format from list.

Hope that helps.

[kamal.chawla]

Thanks a lot, but this is taking predefined formats.

Can i define one format and use ? like i mentioned above "yyyy-mmm-dd"
"yyyy-mm-dd" is there but i want to use month name instead of month number.

[forumsupport]

Hello,

In that case, you can create a VB script to get desired date format and then call that script from the task using 'Run Script' command.
For your convenience, we have created a VB script for you, which will take yesterday's date returned by 'Variable Operation' command as a parameter and will return that date in 'yyyy-mmm-dd' format.

Please copy attached task (.atmn file) under location, 'C:\...\My Documents\Automation Anywhere\Automation Anywhere\My Tasks' folder. Copy FormatDate.vbs under C:\.

Hope that helps.

[kamal.chawla]

Thanks a lot

[rlaliberte]

is this date feature new? This is something I need!

Do I need to upgrade to get this?

[forumsupport]

Hello,

Can you please tell us the version of Automation Anywhere you have? You can check the version from Help->About Automation Anywhere.