Placeholder for Month and Year in the filename

[system]

is there a placeholder to display the current month and year on the report’s filename?

i can only see ‘title’, ‘id’, ‘owner’ ‘datetime’, ‘file extension’. is there a way to add customised placeholders?

thanks.

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outatime (BOB member since 2007-11-20)

[system]

@outatime

is there a way to add customised placeholders?

No, you can’t add or customize placeholders unless you use SDK and develop something yourself.

If you are on BO XI 3.x then there is one hidden/undocumented placeholder. Read more here:

Hidden Placeholder? - %SI_STARTDATE%

I have several reports that I schedule and have stored to a file location. We store them in a folder that corresponds to the day the report was run. I was using the default placeholder %SI_STARTTIME% to create the folder in which the reports reside. This works. However, it includes the time as well. I really just wanted the date (YYYY-MM-DD). So, I was playing around with the placeholders and just typed in %SI_STARTDATE%. I ran my reports and, sure enough, it created a folder called 2009-…

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Marek Chladny (BOB member since 2003-11-27)