One final update in case someone else stumbles upon this thread: my problem was 
using "dateonly" in Koha 18.05. The underlying bug of a date 
(borrowers.dateexpiry) appearing as a datetime was fixed for 18.05, so there 
was no need to use the "dateonly" placeholder any longer, as I'd attempted. 
Simply using <<borrowers.dateexpiry>> in 18.05 works as expected without the 
"12:00 A.M." time.


Arturo Longoria
Reference Librarian/Web Manager
Texas State Law Library
www.sll.texas.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Koha <koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz> On Behalf Of Arturo Longoria
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 08:21
To: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org>
Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Possible to customize date format in notices/slips?

Hi Jonathan,

Our library was upgraded to Koha 18.05.05 this weekend, so I went back and 
added the “dateonly” placeholder for the borrowers.dateexpiry field in a 
notice, but I still see the same issue. Koha does not interpret it correctly 
and instead just outputs “<<borrowers.dateexpiry | dateonly>>” in the e-mail, 
which gets interpreted as an invalid HTML element. So unless I’m using it 
incorrectly, I’m not sure it was fixed by bug 17981? I’ll update the bug to 
document what I saw: 
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21829

Arturo

From: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 09:26
To: Arturo Longoria <arturo.longo...@sll.texas.gov>
Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Possible to customize date format in notices/slips?

I am not sure it's a regression actually.

in master it has been fixed by
commit a236b684fdae8e0da83ca7263b948da971dfc849
    Bug 17981: Add a preview mode for notice templates

modified: C4/Letters.pm
@ Letters.pm:887 @ sub _parseletter {
     my $values = $values_in ? { %$values_in } : {};

     if ( $table eq 'borrowers' && $values->{'dateexpiry'} ){
-        $values->{'dateexpiry'} = format_sqldatetime( $values->{'dateexpiry'} 
);
+        $values->{'dateexpiry'} = output_pref({ str => 
+ $values->{dateexpiry}, dateonly => 1 });
     }

     if ( $table eq 'reserves' && $values->{'waitingdate'} ) {

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 12:21 Jonathan Druart 
<jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org<mailto:jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org>>
 wrote:
Hi Arturo,

I do recreate on 17.11.10, not master. Can you open a bug report?
You should not need to specify the dateonly filter for dateexpiry, it's 
automatically truncated to only display the date part (as there is no time 
part!)

Regards,
Jonathan

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 11:14 Arturo Longoria 
<arturo.longo...@sll.texas.gov<mailto:arturo.longo...@sll.texas.gov>> wrote:
Thank you for your help, Katrin! As a follow up, I attempted to use the 
dateonly placeholder for our membership expiry notice, but the generated 
e-mails did not display as expected. In the notice, I used the following text 
exactly, with a space before and after the pipe character: "Your account will 
expire on <<borrowers.dateexpiry | dateonly>>." But the notices that were 
generated say: "Your account will expire on <>" (with an empty left and right 
angle brackets.

Our library is on Koha 17.11.10, and looking at the database schema, I see that 
the borrowers.dateexpiry column is "date", not "datetime", so that could be the 
reason why the dateonly placeholder doesn't work? But if that's the case, why 
is the "12:00 AM" added if the db column is a date, not a datetime?


Arturo Longoria
Reference Librarian/Web Manager
Texas State Law Library
www.sll.texas.gov<http://www.sll.texas.gov>

-----Original Message-----
From: Koha 
<koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz>> On 
Behalf Of Katrin Fischer
Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 00:59
To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Koha] Possible to customize date format in notices/slips?

Hi Arturo,

try adding | dateonly to your placeholder variable like this:

<< biblio.timestamp | dateonly >>

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 07.11.18 15:46, Arturo Longoria wrote:
> Our library recently enabled the MEMBERSHIP_EXPIRY notice to alert patrons of 
> expiring accounts. Currently, these notices display the expiration date along 
> with a time (“Your account will expire on 12/06/2018 12:00 AM”), but is there 
> a way to just display the date without the time? I read through the 
> information on the wiki at 
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Customising_Notices_and_Slips as well as 
> the manual, but I did not find any indication that the date format can be 
> customized. I thought I’d check in with the list, though, to make sure I’m 
> not missing anything.
>
> Thanks for any input you may have!
>
>
> Arturo Longoria
> Reference Librarian/Web Manager
> Texas State Law Library
> www.sll.texas.gov<http://www.sll.texas.gov><http://www.sll.texas.gov/>
>
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