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Insert Date on PDF Export

Karen Ferland

I would like to be able to insert the current date when exporting to PDF. From what I have read, it appears that I have to write a user macro to do this. Is this correct? If so, does anyone have a user macro that I could copy? My goal is to just have the current date printed on the title page.

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Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]

It's easy to do. Here's what I did on our Confluence:

My macro is called "currentdate:

## Macro title: Current Date
## Macro has a body: N
## Body processing: Selected body processing option
## Output: Selected output option
##
## Developed by: Dave Theodore
## Date created: 06/10/2015
## Installed by: Dave Theodore

## @noparams
$action.dateFormatter.format($content.currentDate)

Keep in mind that this literally displays the current date. It will show today's date when you render the page today, but it will show tomorrow's date tomorrow. Obviously, the PDF will display the date that it was exported.

Karen Ferland

Thank you.

Karen Ferland

One more question, how do I call the macro? Is there a particular format I have to use within the PDF Stylesheet? In your example of Current Date above, how do you call it?

Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]

In my case, the macro is called "currentdate." If I want to use it on a page, I simply type:

{currentdate}

Alternatively, you can find it in the macro browser.

Julia B -Doc Queen

Please vote for this issue to be resolved. It should have already been fixed.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-55765.

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