Ability to change the date format for variables
To be able to modify the format of the Document.CreatedDate variable (token).
I'm glad to announce that variables for Document created and date sent work based on your workspace settings. Thanks for using PandaDoc! Â
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Rebecca Baden
    
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  The month should be spelled out, not abbreviated when using the [Document.CreateDate] field. Abbreviations do not give a professional appearance. Please review and change.
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Tom Ellis
    
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  This is so needed! I am having to create extra fields in the CRM to produce text versions of the date and merge them into the PandaDoc templates.
In case anyone should need it, here is an example Salesforce formula that takes a custom date/time field and converts it from"23/11/2021" format to "23rd November 2021" - You can substitute Date_Today__c for "CreatedDate" or even "Now()" for instance.(TEXT(DAY(Date_Today__c)))
+(CASE(DAY(Date_Today__c),
1, "st",
2, "nd",
3, "rd",
21, "st",
22, "nd",
23, "rd",
31, "st",
"th"
))+" "+
CASE(
MONTH(Date_Today__c),
1, "January",
2, "February",
3, "March",
4, "April",
5, "May",
6, "June",
7, "July",
8, "August",
9, "September",
10, "October",
11, "November",
12, "December",
"None")+" "+TEXT(YEAR(Date_Today__c))
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Stefan Salcher
    
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  This would be a great feature to have! Also for imported date fields from CRMs (Hubspot / Sales Force). It would be great to be able to format these to fit specific offers or different locales (countries). We have different templates for different countries - it would be great if we could set a fitting format in the template for each date field.
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Christian Strøjer
    
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  Yes, when we have a specific date format, it makes perfect sense that tokens has the same values, since we i.e. use PandaDoc to Automate Document creation, and we now have different formats!
Much appreciated
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Jonathan Zoch
    
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  Please attend to this one!!! ‼️
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Marie Debeauville
    
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  The document creation date field is available only in the US date format while all the other fields are available on other format such as DD/MM/YYY or YYYY/MM/DD.....this idea will make the creation date also available in any date format ( which is already available for all other fields)
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Denise George
    
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  It looks like this date issue should be brought to the top of the "development teams" list. This is such an important field for our clients to be able to view properly. Having the year first is way too confusing for some people. When can we expect a fix? We shouldn't have to wait for a certain amount of votes as this should have been an option from the beginning. Other programs seem to be able to handle it.
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Roman Villard
    
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  Variable Date Fields such as ​[Document.CreateDate] should have the option to select what date format is most appropriate.
Instead of "Jun 10, 2021", It would be great to read as the full month - "June 10, 2021".
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Alvin Jorge PandaDoc commented
full Month date name format
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Admin PandaDoc
    
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  Would definitely be in favor of the MM/DD/YYYY option.
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Polina Ismailova
    
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  Date field we included to our documents are just available in English (?) formatting and will always change back to create date whenever I edit again.
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Dov Rosenberg
    
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  Changing formats for dates pulled from Salesforce (as suggested in the docs) does work for that scenario, but most PandaDoc users who are building templates are not Salesforce admins, so have neither the knowledge nor the permission to do this.
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Denver McCann
    
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  Agree with most of the points below, not having a optional date format MM/DD/YY or YYYY or DD/MM/YY or YYYY or with Abreviated MMM (Jan) or Full Text version January for the month element.
GLOBAL Convention awareness should be a given Europe and the US just do it differently - this is a must have.
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Sherwin John Mendoza commented
The customer would like to have a date format wherein ĂŻt is being spelled out like "January 19, 2021"
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Dana Billingsley
    
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  Abbreviations for the month look tacky in professional contracts. Please update to complete spelling of month.
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AdminMadelyn Gunay (Admin, PandaDoc) commented
read as the whole month instead of an abbreviation
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AdminSarah Herbaugh (Admin, PandaDoc) commented
Have the date created pull through full text vs abbreviation (October vs Oct.)
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Dovud Mirzoalimov
    
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  A user has to type every time manually his dates and amounts according to the EU date format when he pulls his dates from the HubSpot CRM.