Date formatting in emails

[joebordes]

open the workflow editor (for example clicking on the vaue input in a condition), select expression and then format_date. You will see this syntax:

format_date(date,format)

if you select "date" and insert a field you will see

format_date(date_start ,format)

so this should be what you are looking for:

format_date(date_start ,'d.m.Y')

now, to put that in the body of a text you have to put it inside a WorkflowFunction meta-structure, like this:

$(general : (__WorkflowFunction__) '."format_date(date_start ,'d.m.Y') )

https://github.com/tsolucio/coreBOSTests/blob/master/modules/com_vtiger_workflow/VTSimpleTemplate.php#L252