Date Format for Wijmo pdf Report

Date Format for Wijmo pdf Report

Posted by: kapil.r.shah on 23 November 2019, 4:14 pm EST

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  kapil.r.shah

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  Posted 23 November 2019, 4:14 pm EST

  I am trying to generate a pdf report using PdfDocument API refering the following link

  https://www.grapecity.com/wijmo/demos/PDF/ExpenseReport/angular

  I am using the following line of code to render the date

      doc.drawText('From: ', 380, 0, { font: bold, continued: true });
      doc.drawText(wijmo.changeType(minDate, wijmo.DataType.String, 'd'));
  

  My Date value is : 2019-11-16T15:07:44.7086635-05:00 .
  
  I want to format it as MM/dd/yyyy

  I change the format to

  doc.drawText('From: ', 380, 0, { font: bold, continued: true });
  
  doc.drawText(wijmo.changeType(minDate, wijmo.DataType.Date, ‘MM/dd/yyyy’));

  but it give me the value 2019-11-16T15:07:44.7086635-05:00

  How do I format it to ‘MM/dd/yyyy’

  Thanks

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  ashwin.saxena

  

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  Posted 25 November 2019, 4:07 am EST

  Hi Kapil,

  The issue seems to be arising because you are providing the type parameter in the changeType method as wijmo.DataType.Date instead of wijmo.DataType.String.
  
  Also, the ‘d’ format is a short version for ‘MM/dd/yyyy’ format. So, you can easily use ‘d’ to format your date to the desired format. You will also need to convert the string date to a Date object before converting. Please refer to the code snippet below:

  doc.drawText(wijmo.changeType(new Date('2019-11-16T15:07:44.7086635-05:00'), wijmo.DataType.String, 'd'));
  

  Let us know if this solves your issue or otherwise.

  Regards,
  
  Ashwin

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  kapil.r.shah

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  Posted 25 November 2019, 4:09 pm EST

  Thanks Ashwin. It works